Bruce Dickins Papers, 1912-1978 | Northern Illinois University

Printer-friendly | Contact Us About This Collection

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Collection Historical Note

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series I: Publications

Box 1

Folder 1: Magdalene College Magazine [magazine|No. 10] page 65 to page 88, 6/1912

Folder 2: The Beheaded Manumission In The Exeter Book [article|XVIII] page 363 to page 367, 1913

Folder 3: Modern Language Review XXI [article reviewed by Dickins], 1926

Folder 4: Dr James's Powder [Life and Letters magazine|vol. 2] page 36 to page 47, 1/1929

Folder 5: Litteris: An International Critical Review Of The Humanities [article|vol. VI no. 1] page 45 to page 48, 4/1929

Folder 6: A System of Transliteration For Old Runic Inscriptions [article] page 1 to page 7, 1932

Folder 7: A System of Transliteration For Old Runic Inscriptions|The epa Coins [Leeds Studies In English & Kindred Languages|No. 1] page 15 to page 21, 1932

Folder 8: The Date of the Ireland Manuscript [Leeds Studies In English & Kindred Languages|No. 2] page 62 to page 66, 1933

Folder 9: The Yorkshire Society For Celtic Studies [lists Dickins as part of the executive committee] page 1 to page 20, 1933-1934

Folder 10: The Ireland Blackburne Manuscript [Leeds Studies In English & Kindred Languages|No. 3] page 31 to page 36, 1934

Folder 11: Latin Additions to Place and Parish Names of England and Wales [Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society|Vol. 3 Part 5] page 334 to page 341, 7/1935

Folder 12: J.M. Kemble and Old English Scholarship [article] page 1 to page 36, 1938

Folder 13: Two Middle English Loanwords in Welsh|Early Names of the Western Isles from Non-Celtic Sources [Yorkshire Celtic Studies II] page 46 to page 48, 1938-1939

Folder 14: The Late Addition to ASC 1006 C. [Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society|Vol. 5 Part III] page 148 to page 149, 2/1940

Folder 15: St. Olave and the British Isles [The Norseman: A Literary & Political Review|Vol. II No. 5] page 370 to page 374, sep/oct 1944

Folder 16: Yorkshire Dialect Prose 2nd series [edited by Dickins & Halliday] page 1 to page 28, 1945

Folder 17: The Farmer On His Job [The Bookmen's Broadsheet|article|2 copies] no page numbers, 4/1945

Folder 18: The Farmer On His Job [The Bookmen's Broadsheet|article|2 copies] no page numbers, 4/1945

Folder 19: Christmas Cry [transcript and letter sent to Dickins re: Christmas Cry newsletter] no page numbers, 10/17/1945

Folder 20: The Conflict of Wit and Will [Leeds School of English Texts & Monographs|article|No. IV] page 1 to page 26, 1946

Folder 21: Lt.-Col. Francis Tidy of the 14th Regiment [article] page 164 to page 177, 5/1946

Folder 22: William L'Isle The Saxonists and Three XVIIth Century Remainder Issues [article] page 53 to page 55, 1947-1948

Folder 23: The Irish Broadside of 1571 and Queen Elizabeth's Types [Cambridge Bibliographical Society Issue 1|article] page 48 to page 60, 1949

Folder 24: The Cambridge Review [article to the editor from Dickins] page 546, 5/14/1949

Folder 25: Stationers Made Free Of the City In 1551/2 and 1552 [Cambridge Bibliographical Society issue 2|article] page 194 to page 195, 1950

Folder 26: John Heaz, Elizabethan Letter-Founder To the Printers [Cambridge Bibliographical Society Issue 3|article] page 287, 1951

Folder 27: Preface and supplementary papers [Leeds Studies In English & Kindred Languages|No. 7 & 8|article] page 1 to page 2, 1952

Folder 28: The Inscriptions Upon the Coffin [article] page 305 to page 307, 1956

Folder 29: Samuel Page Widnall and His Press At Grantchester (1871-1892) [article] page 366 to page 372, 1958

Folder 30: Transactions and Papers 1958 [Institute of British Geographers Publication No. 25|includes William Dickins obituary] page 1 to page 9, 1958

Folder 31: The Dean of Tattersau's [Cambridge Review|article] page 427 to page 429, 3/8/1958

Folder 32: Sport [Cambridge Review|article] page 497 to page 499, 3/9/1959

Folder 33: Addenda To S.P. Widnall [article] page 95, 1960

Folder 34: Further Addenda To S.P. Widnall [article] page 176 to page 178, 1960

Box 2

Folder 1: The Guevaras of Stenigot: Spanish Squires In Tudor Lincolnshire [article] page 215 to page 221, 1960

Folder 2: Robert Ross At Kings [Cambridge Review|article] page 268 to page 269, 1/23/1960

Folder 3: City and University [Cambridge Review|article] page 631 to page 632, 6/11/1960

Folder 4: Henry Gostling's Library: A Young Don's Books in 1674 [article] page 216 to page 224, 1961

Folder 5: The Progress of English Place-Name Studies since 1901 [article] page 281 to page 285, 1961

Folder 6: The Story of Washington Square [hardbound book with article notes pasted in] page 1 to page 15, 10/13/1961

Folder 7: Two Kembles: John and Henry [article] page 1 to page 34, 10/13/1961

Folder 8: The Italic Hand in Tudor Cambridge [Cambridege Bibliographical Society No. 5|article written by Dickins & Fairbank] page 1 to page 44, 1962

Folder 9: The Little Known Renderings of the Old Norse Waking of Angantyr [article] page 80 to page 88, 1962

Folder 10: The Teaching of Italian in Cambridge (1724-1962) [article] page 15 to page 26, 1962

Folder 11: The U.L.C. Copy of Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson [article] page 423 to page 427, 1963

Folder 12: The Favells of Petty Cury: A Cambridge Family in the Napoleonic Wars [article] page 103 to page 115, 1963-1964

Folder 13: The Pembroke Hall Duel of 1791 [Cambridge Review|article] page 255, 2/9/1963

Folder 14: Family Review and Contemporary Evidence [Cambridge Review|article] page 125, 11/16/1963

Folder 15: A Nice Arrangement of Epitaphs [article] no page numbers, 12/1964

Folder 16: Henry: First Duke of Lancaster c.1310-1361 [article] page 1 to page 11, 12/3/1965

Folder 17: The British Academy [nomination booklet] page 1 to page 26, 1965-1966

Folder 18: The Day Henry First Duke of Lancaster Died [article] page 22 to page 25, 1966

Folder 19: An Orkney Scholar: Hugh Marwick (1881-1965) [article] page 1 to page 17, 1966

Folder 20: An Orkney Scholar: Hugh Marwick (1881-1965) [article] page 1 to page 17, 1966

Folder 21: Merchantmen of War in Nelson's Day [The Mariner's Mirror|article] page 33 to page 38, 1967

Folder 22: Bibliographic Note: Printed Playbills in the Peninsular War [article] page 314 to page 318, 1967

Folder 23: Manners Scholarships [article] no page numbers, 5/22/1967

Folder 24: Medieval Literature and Civilization [article|possible reference for Dickins] page 228 to page 232, 1969

Folder 25: The Making of the Parker Library [article] page 19 to page 34, 4/25/1969

Folder 26: The British Academy [journal for the council that Dickins was a member of] page 1 to page 34, 1969-1970

Folder 27: Cambridge in 1842: Drawn by R.W. Buss [Cambridge Bibliographical Society|article] page  231 to page 236, 1971

Folder 28: Magdalene College Magazine [magazine|No. 17] page 1 to page 24, 1972-1973

Folder 29: Fagaduna in Orderic (A.D. 1075) [Otium Et Negotium|article] page 44 to page 45, 1973

Folder 30: The English Place-Name Society Journal [52nd Annual Report] page 1 to page 79, 1974-1975

Folder 31: The English Place-Name Society Journal [53rd Annual Report] page 1 to page 42, 1975-1976

Folder 32: Bruce Dickins 1889-1978 [biography by R.I. Page] page 341 to page 358, 1978

Folder 33: Mittelenglische Sprach- and Literaturproben [Modern English Review|review done by Dickins] page 9 and page 11, no date

Folder 34: An Orkney Scholar: Hugh Marwick (1881-1965) [possible article reference materials] various pages, no date

Folder 35: An Orkney Scholar: Hugh Marwick (1881-1965) [manuscript notes] various pages, no date

Folder 36: The Genealogical Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [article] page 1 to page 8, no date

Folder 37: Green and Black: Joseph Dornford (1794-1868) [article] page 480 to 489, no date

Folder 38: Thumbnail Sketch of an Edinburgh Scholar [article] page 450 to page 451, no date

Folder 39: Leckhampton House (1881-1961) [article] page 15 to page 18, no date

Series II: Newspaper Articles

Box 1

Folder 1: The Orkney Norm|A Discovery in Orkney Runes [An Orkney Scholar newspaper articles], 7/4/1921

Folder 2: Middle Scots Texts [Times Literary Supplement Reviews newspaper article] multiple copies, 7/10/1924

Folder 3: The Owl and the Nightingale [Times Literary Supplement Reviews newspaper article] 2 copies, 1927

Folder 4: Living In An Ivory Tower [Times Literary Supplement Reviews newspaper article], 9/4/1948

Folder 5: Collection of articles from the Times Literary Supplement|4 articles, 1951-1955

Folder 6: Contributions to the Interpretation of Middle Scot Texts [Times Literary Supplement Reviews newspaper article] 9 copies, Feb 21

Folder 7: Collection of articles from the Times Literary Supplement|3 articles, no date

Folder 8: The Flying of Dunbar and Kennedy [Times Literary Supplement Reviews newspaper article] 4 copies, no date

Folder 9: Collection of articles from the Times Literary Supplement|8 articles, no date

Box 2: Special Collections Oversize

Folder 1: [Literary Supplement Newspaper Articles relating to Middle English text|6 articles], 1921-1929

Folder 2: [Literary Supplement Newspaper Articles relating to Anglo-Saxon Era|5 articles], 1924-1929

Folder 3: Correspondence from DA|Important Discovery [articles], 10/23/1929

Folder 4: [Literary Supplement Newspaper Articles relating to Anglo-Saxon Era|32 articles], 1930-1939

Folder 5: [Literary Supplement Newspaper Articles relating to Anglo-Saxon Era|roughly 23 articles], 1930-1939

Folder 6: [Literary Supplement Newspaper Articles|roughly 11 articles], 1941-1949

Folder 7: [Literary Supplement Newspaper Articles relating to Medieval literature|roughly 14 articles], 1941-1948

Folder 8: [Literary Supplement Newspaper Articles relating to Middle English and Anglo-Saxon Era|roughly 8 articles], 1950-1959

Folder 9: An Orkney Scholar & Orkney's Most Distinguished Citizen [article and envelope], 5/27/1965

Folder 10: The Testiment of Cressid [Literary Supplement Newspaper Article] 5 copies, Dec 11

Series III: Correspondence

Box 1

Folder 1: [Postcard from |NK| to Dickins re: |lemion tickets|], 11/29/1912

Folder 2: [Letter 104 and envelope|AC Benson to Dickins], 1914

Folder 3: [Letter 105 and envelope|Mario Pallis to Dickins], 7/1917

Folder 4: [Letter 78 and envelope|Nora Chadwide to Dickins], 4/11/1917

Folder 5: [Postcard, letter, and envelope from Jon William to Dickins], 9/19/1918, 12/30/1918

Folder 6: [Postcard from B.W. to Dickins], 8/22/1925

Folder 7: [Letter between Dickins and Ritihiel], 11/4/1931

Folder 8: [Postcard Professor May Forster to Dickins re: seminar], 1936

Folder 9: [Christmas card and envelope from Ms. Ardal], 1939

Folder 10: [Letter 143 and picture from Percy Kemp to Dickins], 1/6/1939

Folder 11: [Letter and 2 envelopes from the University of Leeds to Dickins], 11/22/1939

Folder 12: [Testimonial to Irene Mary Bower], 4/21/1941

Folder 13: [2 letters, an envelope, and a note between Professor Sahib and M.J. Whelton], 2/17/1942, 3/18/1942

Folder 14: [Postcard from Kenneth Gamera to Dickins], 1943

Folder 15: [Notice from the Philogical Society to Dickins re: cancelled meeting], 1/9/1947

Folder 16: [Letter from Bowes & Bowes Publishing Limited re: estimate for printing], 4/1/1950

Folder 17: [2 pictures, a letter, and an envelope between Dickins and a colleague|D.M.], 9/25/1951

Folder 18: [Pieces of a letter and an envelope from University of London to Dickins], 1952

Folder 19: [Letter from F.E. Harwer to Dickins], 6/13/1952

Folder 20: [Letter to Dickins from Neil], 7/19/1952

Folder 21: [Letter from Florence Harwer to Dickins], 12/9/1952

Folder 22: [Postcard and envelope from Anna O. to Dickins], 12/18/1955

Folder 23: [Letter and envelope from Cohen to Dickins], 4/10/1959

Folder 24: [Letter and envelope from Linlon|National Library of Scotland Edinburgh| to Dickins and a list of resources related to Orkney], 12/22/1965

Folder 25: [Card and envelope from Committee of Onomastic Sciences to Dickins], 1966

Folder 26: [Letter from R.E.M. Wheeler to Dickins re: nomination], 1/1/1966

Folder 27: [Letter from Lunel to Dickins], 1/17/1972

Folder 28: [Letter from Howard to Dickins], 11/4/1972

Folder 29: [Small note from student to Dickins], no date

Series IV: Notes (handwritten)

Box 1

Folder 1: [Timeline], 1907-1914

Folder 2: [Copy of Times Literary Supplement with personal notations written on back], 1952

Folder 3: [Piece of brown paper with personal note written on it], 1/6/1950

Folder 4: [Notes pertaining to An Orkney Scholar], 1963-1966

Folder 5: [Notes and research material|subject not identified], 1965

Folder 6: [Notes and two photos for the article written on Edward the Confessor], 1/28/1965

Folder 7: [Personal notes|shorthand], no date

Folder 8: [Leather bound book keeping journal with notes], no date

Folder 9: [Hard cover research journal with notes], no date

Folder 10: [The Times Accountant Department paper with notes on the backside], no date

Folder 11: [Lecture notes], no date

Folder 12: [Loose leaf binder with notes|Baragamara Saga], no date

Folder 13: [Loose leaf binder with notes|Division of, no date

Folder 14: [Bibliographic Citations], no date

Folder 15: [Note comparing the U.S. to England], no date

Folder 16: [Notes found in research journal|3 photos], no date

Folder 17: [Research notes|subject not identified], no date

Folder 18: [Research notes|runes], no date

Series V: Miscellaneous

Box 1

Folder 1: [Honor's English 1923-1932], 1923-1932

Folder 2: [Sutton Hoo Bibliography], 1939-1953

Folder 3: [History of the West Yorkshire Regiment|by Capt E.V.Tempest] page 1 to page 64, 1941

Folder 4: [Cambridge Bibliographical Society|Dickins listed as editor of transactions], 1/20/1949

Folder 5: [Early English Text Society Annual Report], 1958

Folder 6: [Cambridge Antiquarian Society Annual General Meeting], 3/9/1959

Folder 7: Sports Grounds of Cambridge [maps|1 original|6 copies], 1960

Folder 8: Founder's Day and Conferment of Honorary Degrees & Letter From Vice Chancellor [Universiry of Manchester], 5/18/1960

Folder 9: [Governing Body Agenda|typed notes], 7/28/1964

Folder 10: [University of Edinburgh Graduation Ceremony booklet], 7/8/1965

Folder 11: [Letter of the Corpus Association No. 48|Dickins was a member] page 1 to page 51, 1969

Folder 12: [Letter of the Corpus Association No. 53|Dickins was a member] page 1 to page 72, 1974

Folder 13: [The Cambridge Review: A Journal of University Life and Thought|Vol. XCIX No. 2239] page 157 to page 188, 6/10/1977

Folder 14: [The British Academy Yearbook], 1977-1978

Folder 15: [Paper with From University Printer logo on it], no date

Folder 16: Incumbents of St. Benet's Cambridge [fellows and masters of Corpus Christi], no date

Folder 17: [The Army Writing Pad|blank], no date

Folder 18: [Drawing|possible map], no date

Folder 19: [Paper with the title Armorial Bearings|notes on Robert Townley & Will Spens], no date

Folder 20: [Test Booklet|University of Glasgow|James Thomas Black Macleary], no date

Folder 21: [List of books and papers], no date

Folder 22: Medium Aevum Reviews [Vol. XXXVI No. 3|article] page 301 to page 304, no date

Folder 23: Printing With Anglo-Saxon Types [article] page 1 to page 14, no date

Folder 24: [Dialogue of unknown authors|speakers], no date

Folder 25: [Select readings from Traliana] page 221, page 342, page 867, and page 809 to page 810, no date

Folder 26: [4 photographs], no date

Folder 27: [Various papers from book keeping journal], no date

Folder 28: [Manuscript sources and chief printed references], no date

Box 2: Special Collections Oversize

Folder 11: [Map of Northern Nordic Europe Region], no date