David Dennison, of the Dept of English and American Studies, University of
Manchester, has drawn my attention to the following on-line manuscript
source which may be of interest to mining historians working on the
north-west of England.
>We are pleased to announce the release of a new corpus of never-
>before transcribed letters written to Richard Orford, a steward at
>Lyme Hall in Cheshire, between 1761 and 1790, held in the John
>Rylands University Library of Manchester. These are
>unselfconscious practical letters, often by uneducated people, on
>matters of business, farming, mining, and social relations.
>
>A Corpus of late 18c Prose contains about 300,000 words,
>available free for ftp download as a single text file for electronic
>searching or as three linked HTML files for maximum readability.
>For details, sample transcriptions, and an access request form,
>please go to
>
>http://www.art.man.ac.uk/ENGLISH/staff/DD/late18c.htm
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> David Denison
> Dept of English and American Studies
> University of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL | U.K.
>+44 (0)161-275 3154 (phone) +44 (0)161-275 3256 (fax)
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>http://www.art.man.ac.uk/ENGLISH/staff/DD/
>
Peter
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