Hertfordshire Response Books
Description
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Hertfordshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were recorded by SED fieldworker Stanley Ellis at Therfield and Codicote, and by Marie Haslam at Wheathampstead. Haslam's Wheathampstead response book has an ms. note on the inside front cover, Fair copy made from the original by B. W. Ashurst 30th June 1960. 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 Hertfordshire were edited by Rae Lee Siporin in 1965. The response books are retained in the numerical order assigned to SED localities, 28 Herts 1-3.
Metadata
| Identifier | tr9p8r2d |
| IRN | 409624 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SED/2/2/28 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tr9p8r2d |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Questionnaire Response Books |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | 1958 |
| Size and Medium | 1 magazine file with 3 ms. response books. |