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Reading Program, 1930s
The Reading Program, which was of special importance during the early years of the EMED (1929-1934), has its own category. The program involved some 460 volunteer readers from more than 200 colleges and universities in the United States and elsewhere, who collected quotations from, primarily, 16th- and 17th- works on a variety of topics; their reports make up a large part of this category. The following materials are arranged topically within a chronological framework.
Master Bibliography of Early Modern English Texts, 1920s-1930s
The Master Bibliography comprises eight and a half boxes (79 through the first half of 87) of roughly 4" x 6" slips, in double columns, listing Early Modern English texts in chronological order, from 1350 through 1700 (with a few later ones up to 1822). This is presumably the Craigie—Raleigh file (see item h in the list "Bibliographical Materials" in Books and Negatives in EMED Library above), consisting primarily of cut-up's from book sellers' catalogues, supplemented by a large number of handwritten slips. The 2nd column of box 87 contains materials of similar size, primarily bibliographical.