Academic Correspondence File 85
Description
McGrigor Phillips, Dorothy Una. Correspondence between Harold Orton and Dorothy Una McGrigor Phillips regarding the Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society and the latter’s dialect poetry contributions; the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; Lindley Harrison; newspaper cuttings of John Fairfax-Blakeborough’s "Country Diary” from the Darlington and Stockton Times (1951); Survey of English Dialects fieldwork; the Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society and contributions, comments and finance; overseas trips taken by both Orton and McGrigor Phillips; the President’s Prize; McGrigor Phillips’ poems in print and her gifts to the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University Library; the Northern Broadsheet; the publication of the Survey of English Dialects and McGrigor Phillips’ gift of £500; Eduard Kolb; the finance of the Survey of English Dialects, potential publishers including E.J. Arnold & Son, progress and negotiations; McGrigor Phillips’ gift of £300 for three years to help fund the Survey; the three-year donation to the Survey from the Burtons; Survey progress and the five-year publication plan; and Orton’s 1964 trip to the United States. 1 file. 1950-1967.
Metadata
| Identifier | qp9jn33v |
| IRN | 417500 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SED/1/1/6/85 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qp9jn33v |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Academic-Related |
| Date | 1950-1967 |