¹CMY and her mother had been among the workers recruited by Furnivall to work on the vast project which eventually became the New English Dictionary. Gertrude Walter came to live with CMY in September 1873. This letter relates toFurnivall's attempts to gather up the material accumulated by the Philological Society when James Murray took over the project for the Oxford University Press. For the confusion which Furnivall's energetic but haphazard methods had produced, see Lynda Mugglestone, Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary (New Haven, Yale: 2005).