Letter: 1869 Jan. 23, 1 Cintra Terrace, Cambridge, to David Laing / W.W. Skeat. 1869.

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Letter: 1869 Jan. 23, 1 Cintra Terrace, Cambridge, to David Laing / W.W. Skeat. 1869.

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Concerns Skeat's intention to print a new dition of Barbour's Bruce for the Early English Text society.

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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...

Early English Text Society.

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Barbour, John, -1395

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