Collection Level Description: Papers of F.W. Dyer
Reference: MSS. Eng. misc. c. 754-6, e. 1246-80; Eng. lett. d. 478
Title: Papers of F.W. Dyer
Dates of Creation: 1875-1906
Extent: 39 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English
Administrative/Biographical History
Frederick William Dyer (d. 1906) was an inventor.
Scope and Content
Papers of F.W. Dyer, consisting of:
- Papers, including printed pamphlets, letters and notebooks, relating to Lingualumina, 1876-1906
- Bundles of slips compiled by Dyer for Lingualumina, containing abstractions, classifications, dichotomies
and histories of various subjects
- Accounts by Dyer of his inventions, with some personal papers
- Miscellaneous manuscripts and printed items
- Printed pamphlets, mainly on scientific subjects, many annotated by Dyer
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were given to the Library, c.1906.
Access Conditions
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a
valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).
Further Information
Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the
Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 44989-45027.
Access Points
Inventors
Languages, Artificial
Dyer | Frederick William | d. 1906 | Inventor
Enquiries
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