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This is chiefly the correspondence of Charles C. Fries, Editor of the EMED, whose main correspondents included Hope Emily Allen (a well known independent scholar who worked for the EMED for a time), Sir W. A. Craigie (former editor of the OED, editor at the time of the Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles at the University of Chicago and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue in Edinburgh), Kenneth Sisam (Assistant Secretary to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press), David H. Stevens (of the General Education Board in New York), and various officials of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association of America, the University of Michigan, etc. In addition to Fries, sometimes Thomas A. Knott, Editor of the MMED, and occasionally other editors and staff members, answered letters. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, and each correspondent's letters are arranged chronologically, from earliest to latest. For additional EMED correspondence by Fries and Associate Editor Hereward T. Price see box 7.