Correspondence
Description
Original incoming and copies of outgoing letters between Harold Orton and Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers, publishers, editors, university administrators and academics. These relate to Orton's ongoing attempts to secure funding, not only for the support of fieldworkers in the field and editors working on the collected data, but also financial support to enable the publication of the Basic Material volumes. Orton offers feedback and encouragement to fieldworkers, who report to him in writing on a regular basis. This subseries also contains general, academic-related and administrative correspondence, generated by Orton in his capacity as Head of Department at the University of Leeds. The larger part of this subseries was created during the period 1945-1975.
Metadata
| Identifier | qfbfrp71 |
| IRN | 409357 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SED/1/1 |
| Level | Sub-series |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qfbfrp71 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Harold Orton Papers |
| Creator(s) | Orton, Harold |
| Date | 1929-1975 |
| Size and Medium | 10 boxes of manuscript and printed paper items., 2 linear metres. |
| System of Arrangement | This subseries has been arranged in the following sub-subseries: - Fieldwork, 1945-1974 - Funding, 1946-1970 - Publication, 1951-1972 - General Administration, 1948-1968 - A Word Geography of England, 1970-1973 - Academic-Related, 1935-1975 - General Dialect Related Enquiries, 1929-1971 This is an imposed arrangement, as no original order was apparent. Orton's original ordering of individual files, most notably within the Academic-Related sub-subseries SED/1/1/6, has, however, been retained. |