Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...special investigation on literary subjects, not necessarily very complicated, but interesting to the general body of students. The first paper yesterday was entitled "Some Observations on the language of Chaucer," and was read by Mr. J. M. Manly. The paper described the use of final e in one manuscript only, "The Dream of Fair Women." The changes in words were, in Chaucer's time, much more easily made than now, as there was no dictionary as a standard, and writers often fixed spelling to suit themselves. This of course complicates matters very seriously, and many passages in Chaucer are still...