The papers of Samuel Weller Singer mainly relating to the compilation of a dictionary of Old and Middle English, which, according to the Dictionary of National Biography, was abandoned because of Joseph Bosworth's rival Anglo-Saxon Dictionary [1838]. Some of the slip indexes for the dictionary are written on the reverse of torn scraps of Singer's official correspondence of the 1830s as Hon. Secretary of the Travellers' Club.
The papers of Samuel Weller Singer relating to the compilation of a dictionary of Old and Middle English
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- Dates of Creation19th century
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Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858) was an author. See the Dictionary of National Biography for further details.
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Given to the Library in 1984, in response to the Bodleian Exhibition The Douce Legacy.
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