Abstract

Field notes, articles, research findings and support material, subject files, historical studies, bibliographies, dictionaries and other linguistic lists, language origin studies, etymological lexicons, and other papers and records of a professor of Southeast Asian languages, with particular emphasis on minority or dying dialects and languages, in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Scope and content

Correspondence with colleagues and others concerning language, literature, various teaching positions, and activities of the College English Association, the Modern Language Association, the American Dialect Society, and other professional organizations. Other items concern Wentworth's American Dialect Dictionary, his student days, his instructorship at Cornell, manuscripts of poetry, diaries, and personal expense accounts.

Scope and content "A History of the Organization of Language Teaching in the DML(L), (Cornell University)," a history of language teaching in the Division of Modern Languages (later the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) at Cornell University, 1994; "Unfit to Print: A Selection of Dick Leed's Letters," 1999; "Our Mennonite Heritage," 2001; "The Canterbury Tales in Readable Middle English, Volume I... spelt by Dick Leed," 2001; and "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," recited by Dick Leed, 6 compact...