Autograph letters signed from W.W. Skeat, Cambridge, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1875 December.

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Autograph letters signed from W.W. Skeat, Cambridge, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1875 December.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/417075287

Recipient of both letters is possibly Buxton Forman, based on provenance information. (1) responds to criticism of the spelling of the past participle in Skeat's editions; Skeat declares that the ending 'd is indeed ugly, but it is the spelling as he found it in the first quarto edition. Address on letters: 1, Cintra Terrace, Cambridge.

2 items ; 18 x 12 cm.

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Foreman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917

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Fletcher, John, 1579-1625

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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...