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[1–29: 1 no inf; 2, 3, compl; 4 title garbled last year, corrected below; 7 compl; 8 no inf; 8a compl; 13 discont r.n.g.; 14 ch add Houghton Library, Harvard; 15, 16, 17 no inf; 20 compl; 23 discont, no support for project; 24a compl; 26 no inf; 27 compl; 28 no inf; 28a ch add The Warburg Institute, London; 29 no inf].

[415–419b: 415 ch add North Dakota; 417, 417a compl; 419a, 419b subjects modified, see below].

[2678–2719: 2678 title changed; 2679, 2680 compl; 2683 ch add Florida; 2684 compl; 2685a no inf; 2686 for “STC” read “SC”; 2687 no inf; 2688 compl; 2690 discont, illness; 2691 no inf; 2692 abandoned for new topic; 2694 discont r.n.g.; 2704 for “Willis I.” read “I. Willis”; 2710 ch add E. Illinois SC, Charleston; 2716, 2716a no inf; 2717–2719 compl].

[3464–3557: 3470, 3472 compl; 3473, 3474, 3475 no inf; 3478, 3479 compl; 3479a no inf; 3490, 3491, 3492, compl; 3494 suspended; 3497 discont r.n.g.; 3500 for “14th-century French prose” read “early French texts”; 3501 discont, different diss subject; 3503, 3504, 3505, 3506, 3508a compl; 3510 discont r.n.g.; 3511 discont, different diss subject; 3512 compl; 3514 title ch; 3517 discont r.n.g.; 3518 no inf; 3530a no inf; 3531 compl; 3532 discont, results anticipated; 3533 compl; 3542 for “Mr.” read “C”; 3546, 3552 compl].

[4530–4552: 4531, 4536, 4540, 4545 compl; 4552 no inf].

[4748–4791: 4748 suspended; 4752 compl; 4754 more specific title given below; 4755, 4760, 4761, 4762 compl; 4764 no inf; 4769 compl; 4770 ch add New Mexico; 4772 compl; 4773, 4775, 4776 no inf; 4779 delete “D (Valencia)”; 4782 ch add UCLA, delete “D”; 4783, 4786, 4787, 4788 compl; 4789 delete “and Vidos, B. E ”].

[5302–5404: 5303 compl; 5314 ch add Belfast; 5316 no inf; 5316afor “M.” read “A.L.”; 5319 present add unknown; 5320 no inf; 5322 compl; 5323 ch add Westfield C, London; 5324 compl; 5326 discont, emigration; 5327, 5329 compl; 5336 discont r.n.g.; 5337 name now Brown, Mrs. Faith, ch add Wayne STC, Nebraska; 5340, 5342, 5344–5347 no inf; 5348, 5348a compl; 5352 for “aeke” read “aesse”; 5353 compl; 5354 no inf; 5355 discont, ch of interest; 5358 compl; 5359 discont, emigration; 5360 compl; 5366 ch add California; 5272 present add unknown; 5373b, 5373c compl; 5374, 5375 compl; 5376 now subject of a pupil's diss; 5378, 5381, 5394 compl; 5395a for “M.” read “J.”; 5396 compl; 5397, 5398 no inf; 5399 delete “D”; 5400 compl; 5402, 5403 no inf].

[6022–6054: 6026 discont r.n.g.; 6031, 6040 no inf; 6042 delete “sur 1' ”; 6043 discont r.n.g.; 6044 compl; 6045 delete “and Vidos B.E.” add at end “B”; 6046, 6049 compl].

Miscellaneous. [6121–6129: 6126 present address unknown].

Linguistics. [6226–6242: 6226 discont (limited to Serbo-Croat, see below); 6233, 6234, 6239, 6240, 6242 compl].

Rotographs or microfilms of the MSS and rare printed materials listed below have been purchased with the proceeds of the Fund for Photographic Reproductions collected by the Modern Language Association, and are now on deposit in the Library of Congress. They will be loaned through the Interlibrary Loan to persons engaged in research. The normal period of such loan is from three to six months, but the loan may be renewed. The first claim to the loan of reproductions belongs to the member who made the request.

Add. 1. London, Lincoln's Inn Library, MS. Hale 135. Gilbert de Thornton, Summa. [1 vol.]

Aberystwyth: National Lib., MS. Peni-arth 42: Add. 9; MS. Peniarth 43: Add. 9.