Essex Response Books
Description
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Essex to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were recorded by SED fieldworkers Stanley Ellis, Howard Berntsen, Michael Barry and Peter Wright at Great Chesterford, Belchamp Walter, Cornish Hall End, Henham, Stisted, West Bergholt, Little Bentley, High Easter, Tiptree, East Mersea, Netteswell, Little Baddow, Tillingham, Doddinghurst and Canewdon. Each response book bears ms. editorial markings relating to the editing of the recorded responses for publication in the SED East Midlands and East Anglia Counties Basic Material volume. Response books for Essex were edited by Rae Lee Siporin in 1964-1965. The response books are retained in the numerical order assigned to SED localities, 29 Ess 1-15.
Metadata
| Identifier | tf5jz9fd |
| IRN | 409625 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SED/2/2/29 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tf5jz9fd |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Questionnaire Response Books |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Berntsen, Howard N, Barry, Michael V, Wright, Peter |
| Date | 1952-1961 |
| Size and Medium | 2 magazine files with 15 ms. response books. |