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William Diver papers, 1955-1989

Series I: Correspondence & Manuscripts

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Word:


WORD - Dead - A-G:



Box 1 Folder 2 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, 1954-1956

(Including correspondence with many notable linguists, such as a letter from 4/15/1957 inviting Noam Chomsky to review Joseph Greenberg's Essays in Linguistics)


WORD C-F:


Box 1 Folder 4 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, 1957-1959


WORD G-H:


Box 1 Folder 5 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, 1957-1959


WORD I-L:


Box 1 Folder 17 Notebook entitled WORD, including log of manuscripts submitted and their disposition, with inserted ms. from I. R. Galperin Word-related correspondence with Weinreich and Diver, 1957-1959


WORD - Dead - H-L:


Box 1 Folder 3 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, 1954-1956


WORD M-R:


Box 1 Folder 6 Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich related to the journal Word, including some letters to and from Diver, 1957-1959


WORD - Dead M-R:


Box 1 Folder 13 Correspondence with Uriel Weinreich with regard to journal Word, 1954-1958

(Also includes an inserted file of a letter from 1967)


WORD S-T:


Box 1 Folder 16 Only contains correspondence between Weinreich and Pavel Trost, 1957-1959


WORD - Dead S-Z:


Box 1 Folder 15 Correspondence with Uriel Weinreich with regard to journal Word


WORD U-Z:


Box 1 Folder 12 Correspondence with Weinreich and Diver with regard to journal Word, 1957-1958


Box 1 Folder 8 WORD L: Correspondence to and from Uriel Weinreich and Diver related to the journal Word



Box 2 Folder 17 Letter acknowledging appointment to status as Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, 12/10/1990, 10 December 1990



Box 1 Folder 7 Clowes: Correspondence between Uriel Weinreich and Clowes and Sons Ltd. Printers, about having the journal Word printed by them, December 1957-13 July 1959


Box 1 Folder 9 Exchange: Correspondence related to Word, including some book reviews (by others), 1957-1959


Martinet & Weinreich, 1959-1961


Box 1 Folder 10 Correspondence between Diver, Uriel Weinreich and André Martinet

(With Descriptions of courses taught by Weinreich and Bibliography of writings of Weinreich)


Box 1 Folder 11 Linguistic Circle of New York - Minutes, 1949-1950


University of Chicago Press:


Box 1 Folder 14 Letter from U of Chicago Press soliciting a manuscript from Diver , 12 December 1966


Box 1 Folder 14 Letter from Diver suggesting he might write 3 books (with encouraging reply) , 17 August 1967


Box 1 Folder 14 Letter proposing publication of a collection of three Columbia Master's Essays written from the perspective of Diver's theoretical approach, with introductory remarks by him, with the title Studies in Grammatical Analysis, 9 January 1968



Box 2 Folder 3 Correspondence with editor of Acta Linguistica Hafnensia about a promised paper by Diver , 1966



Box 3 Folder 1 Correspondence with Michael Kaplan about various topics related to Spanish linguistics, 1980



Box 2 Folder 33 Correspondence with Lord Zuckerman about an article he wrote in the New York Review


Box 2 Folder 3 Satirical letter addressed to The Faculty of Blake School, Hopkins, Minnesota about the expression "by and large", 4 October 1955



Box 1 Folder 18 Letter from Ellen Contini-Morava and Barbara Sussman Goldberg to conference participants, with regard to publication of the conference proceedings, 8 January 1992


Box 1 Folder 19 Correspondence about publication of Diver's paper "Theory" in volume edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Barbara Sussman Goldberg, 1994

(Includes Contini-Morava's editorial comments on Diver's paper)