Funding
Description
Harold Orton's preliminary enquiries of academic, charitable and commercial trusts regarding Research Awards/sponsorship to support the work of fieldworkers and editorial team members. Those organisations approached include the British Academy, Burton Trust, Gulbenkian Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, Nuffield Foundation, the Philological Society and its honorary secretary, L. R. Palmer, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and Yorkshire Television. This sub-sub-series also includes Orton's correspondence with successive Vice-Chancellors of the University of Leeds regarding the University's financial support of his work. It also includes Orton's typed progress reports on the Survey sent to one of the supporting Trusts, the Leverhulme.
Metadata
| Identifier | nkt6bdzp |
| IRN | 409572 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SED/1/1/2 |
| Level | Sub-sub-series |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/nkt6bdzp |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Correspondence |
| Creator(s) | Orton, Harold |
| Date | 1946-1970 |
| Size and Medium | 16 files in 1 box., 0.41 linear metres. |
| System of Arrangement | Files within the sub-subseries are arranged in a broadly chronological and alphabetical order, the latter by personal/corporate name, or by subject. Individual letters within each file are arranged chronologically. |