{"id":340,"date":"2012-03-10T17:15:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T21:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2012-03-10T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T21:56:21","slug":"a-grand-if-worse-for-wear-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2012\/03\/10\/a-grand-if-worse-for-wear-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand, if worse for wear, Repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an effort to increase our holdings of English lexicography and linguistics, we recently acquired a very rare work: <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-spence-society.co.uk\/\">Thomas Spence<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|013074838\">The Grand Repository of the English Language<\/a><\/em> (1775). Spence, a Newcastle schoolteacher and political refomer, developed a phonetic alphabet that was far ahead of its time, but received little contemporary notice. Houghton&#8217;s copy of <em>The Grand Repository<\/em> is one of only three known to exist. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lfYwH0irZKgC\">Today, however<\/a>, Spence is the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.leeds.ac.uk\/~engafg\/spencelg.htm\">increasing scholarly attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence1.jpg 786w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence1-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence4.jpg 871w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence4-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence5.jpg 988w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence5-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This particular copy is also notable for its provenance; it is inscribed &#8220;Peter McCallum, Serj., 74th Regiment, Fort George, Penobsc, March 30th, 1781.&#8221; That indicates that McCallum was part of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/74th_Regiment_of_%28Highland%29_Foot\">a British regiment<\/a> stationed at Fort George in Maine during the American Revolution, and likely took part in one of the colonists&#8217; most stinging military defeats just two years earlier, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castinehistoricalsociety.org\/penobscot.html\">Penobscot Expedition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"507\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence3.jpg 421w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2012\/02\/Spence3-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an effort to increase our holdings of English lexicography and linguistics, we recently acquired a very rare work: Thomas Spence&#8216;s The Grand Repository of the English Language (1775). Spence, a Newcastle schoolteacher and political refomer, developed a phonetic alphabet that was far ahead of its time, but received little contemporary notice. 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