Autograph letters signed from W.W. Skeat, Cambridge, to F.G. Fleay [manuscript], 1875 March.

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Autograph letters signed from W.W. Skeat, Cambridge, to F.G. Fleay [manuscript], 1875 March.

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Both letters concern Skeat's request that Fleay prepare a list of all the dramatists who have used dialect. On embossed letterhed of 1, Cintra Terrace, Cambridge.

2 items ; 18 x 12 cm.

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Fleay, Frederick Gard, 1831-1909

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Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912

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Walter William Skeat was born in London and educated at Cambridge, becoming an ordained minister in 1860. He took a position as mathematics lecturer at Cambridge, but continued to develop his interest in language and literature, translating, editing, and writing scholarly works. This led to his role as the first professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge, where he instituted a comprehensive course of study in English language and literature. He created a historic edition of Chaucer's works, made less...