GLS B10-B18 - Papers of Eric Otto Winstedt. - 1909-1927

GLS B10 1-29: Letters from R A Scott Macfie, 1909-13, 1932

GLS B11 1-186: Letters from T.W.T. Thompson, 1914-1927

GLS B11 187-189: 'The Twelve Wonders of the World', May 1924 from Edward Smith; and notes from 'Zigeuner-Buch' and 'Dorset records' made by T.W. Thompson

GLS B12...

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Archive level description: Sub-sub series
Physical Description:9 boxes, 1 oversize volume
Summary:

GLS B10 1-29: Letters from R A Scott Macfie, 1909-13, 1932

GLS B11 1-186: Letters from T.W.T. Thompson, 1914-1927

GLS B11 187-189: 'The Twelve Wonders of the World', May 1924 from Edward Smith; and notes from 'Zigeuner-Buch' and 'Dorset records' made by T.W. Thompson

GLS B12 1-107: Letters from correspondents, arranged alphabetically (see list of correspondents below), including 27 letters from Johan Miscow (GLS B12 52-77)

GLS B12 111-115: Corrected typescript drafts of 'Siegfried and Hasan of Basra' (unpublished)

GLS B12 116: Notebooks, notes and fragments, mostly linguistic

GLS B13 1-61: Letters from D.M.M. Bartlett, 1947; R.A. Scott Macfie, 1924; T.W. Thompson, 1929-30; John Sampson, Dora Yates, with undated notes by Winstedt, Romani sentences 'From Mr Goddard Johnson' with corrected proof, (B13 11-12) and seven Gypsy notebooks (B13 55-61)

GLS B14 1-52: Letters and notes, including a Romani vocabulary collected by Ivor Evans from British Gypsies in 1928 (B14 1); Letters from Engelbert Wittich, June 1911-Dec 1913, with Romany songs, poems and short stories and proofs of Wittich's articles (GLS B14 2-16); and part translation of Eileen Sundt's Beretning om Fante-eller Landstrygerfolket i Norge (1852), including vocabulary of Tater (Gypsy) languages of Norway and Sweden (GLS B14 18-20). With fragmentary undated notes on Gypsies by Winstedt, T.W. Thompson, and others.

GLS B15 1-87: Correspondence, with notes on Romany vocabulary and records of Gypsy boxing fights and fighters; T.W. Thompson's notes from J Horsfall Turner's notebooks, and 'Miss Messenger's Hants vocab' (GLS B15 82), with typescript article 'Neidhart and Friderun', March 1908-Aug 1953 and undated

GLS B16 1-76: Correspondence, including letters from F. G. Ackerley, 1915-20 (GLS B16 1-10); F.G. Huth,1934-37 (GLS B16 15-62); typescripts of 'The Machma with Nine Meribens' (GLS B16 63) and 'O Tardimanero ta O Drabenero' (GLS B16 64); 'Sendinger Gilia' by Wittich (in GLS B16 65); typescript by Brepohl: 'Gypsies in the Argentine. Personal observations' (GLS B16 70)

GLS B17 1-69: Letters mainly from George Hall, Nov 1909-March 1943 (GLS B17 2-61) and undated notes

GLS B18 1-72: Letters, notes, and vocabularies: from W. Foy, and the Garratts describing their travels, Oct 1908-Oct 1913 (GLS B18 1-22); William Townley Searle, Jan 1911-Dec 1912 (GLS B18 22A 1-23); Esmeralda Groome (GLS B18 23-24); Engelbert Wittich, with 'Uber den Zigeunervogel' (GLS B18.44A) and 'Zigeunerscenen' (GLS B18.45); and others, Nov 1908-June 1912; with corrected typescripts of 'American Gypsy Tricks'; 'Hoyland's Riley Smith'; 'The Jowles Family'; Mosquitoes and Anachronisms'; and 'Rudari in Germany'(GLS B18 46-50); 19th c. Apprenticeship and Freeman certificates for Richard Castell from the city of Oxford (GLS B18 71-72)

GLS B19 1-28: Notebooks: including 1. 'German Gypsies, Aug. 1912'; 2. T.W. Thompson's 'Anglo-Romani Gleanings' with Winstedt's notes; 3-8. Notebooks numbered IV-IX, XI, c.1910-1919; 9-11. Notebooks A,B, E; 12-18. Undated notebooks with notes from press; 19. Transportation records; 20. C.

'Amero.Bohemians'

; 21-25. Undated notebooks with vocabulary notes; 26-27. Undated notebook, with notes from Bell's Travels into Russia; British Library MSS; 28. letters from Jacob Bryant, 1782-83; vocabularies; undated loose notes on headed paper: Manor House, Tytherington, nr. Macclesfield

GLS B20: bound notebook with manuscript 'Register of Gypsy names', c.1920

Date:1909-1927
Reference Number:GLS B10-B18
Arrangement:

Correspondence arranged alphabetically.

List of correspondents in GLS B12:

  • Ackerley, Fred G
  • Adshead, Harold
  • Bouchal
  • Atkinson
  • Aichele, W.
  • Block, Martin
  • Bridges, Robert
  • Brown, Irving
  • Crofton, H.C.
  • Dutt, W A
  • Eisler, Robert T.
  • Gilliat-Smith, Bernard
  • Gillington, Alice E
  • Halliday, W.R.
  • Hewitt, Reginald
  • Hine, Reginald L.
  • Huth, F.G.
  • Imeson, W.E.
  • Jones, R.W.
  • Klancar, Anthony J.
  • James, Alfred
  • Krauss, Freidrich
  • McFarlane, Andrew
  • Macfie, Robert Andrew Scott
  • Marchbin, Ander
  • Marin, G.
  • Miskow, Johan, letters 1922-1928, with 'Foreign Gypsies in Denmark' (published in JGLS Notes and Queries and Gypsy-German-English vocabulary (not published).
  • Pfaus, Oscar
  • Shaw, Fred
  • Shoemaker, Henry W.
  • Spalding, James A.
  • Symons, Arthur
  • Thompson, T.W.
  • Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian
  • Waller, Myles S.
  • Wellstood, Frederick C.
  • Winstedt, E.O.
  • Wittich, Engelbert
  • Woolner, A.C.
  • Yates, Dora

List of correspondents in GLS B15:

  • Williams, W. R.
  • Atholl, Katharine
  • Brewer
  • Weld, E.
Biographical/Administrative Information:Eric Otto Winstedt (1880-1955) was born at Oxford and educated at Magdalen College where he gained international fame by discovering a previously unknown fragment of Juvenal in a Bodleian MS. He became a noted classical scholar and philologist, and an authority on Coptic. In 1907 he joined the Gypsy Lore Society and produced many valuable papers for the journal. When, in 1922, the Third Series of the Journal took up from the New Series which had faltered with the outbreak of the First World War Winstedt became editor and fulfilled this role until 1930, remaining involved in the editorial board until 1939. With T W Thompson Winstedt edited and published several Anglo-Romani vocabularies. On his death he bequeathed the whole of his extensive Gypsy Library to the Gypsy Lore Society.

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