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John Lesslie Hall Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
John Lesslie Hall was a member of the faculty of the College of William and Mary from 1888 to 1928. He was born in Richmond,
Va., 2 March 1856. He attended Randolph-Macon College. Taught school. Married Margaret Fenwick. Among other volumes, he published
a translation of Beowulf and co-authored an Anglo-Saxon grammar. Hall died in 1928.
Collection of John Lesslie Hall, a William & Mary faculty member from 1888-1928. The collection includes biographical material;
notebooks; publications; pictures; speeches and addresses; Notes on Bruton Parish Church; correspondence; and tax levies.
Notebook #1 --Notes on Anglo-Saxon dialects, from the lectures of Dr. Bright, and notes onSanskrit, from the lectures of Dr.
Bloomfield, taken by John Lesslie Hall
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 10 id15120
Notebook # 2-- Notes on Anglo-Saxon verse, from the lectures of Dr. Bright, taken by John Lesslie Hall
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 11 id15121
Notebook # 3--Notes on Beowulf and Andreas and other Anglo-Saxon poems, taken by John Lesslie Hall, from the lectures of Drs.
Wood and Bright respectively
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 12 id15122
Notebook # 4--Notes on comparative German grammar and comparative philology, taken by John Lesslie Hall, from the lectures
of Drs. Wood and Bloomfield respectively
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 13 id15123
Notebook # 5-- notes on comparative German grammar, and the Nibelungen Epic, taken by John Lesslie Hall
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 14 id15124
Notebook # 6--Notes on English seminary, and Middle-High German, taken by John Lessle Hall
1885-1887
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id15126
Box 2
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 1 id15127
Notebook # 7--Notes on German seminary and phonetics taken by John Lesslie Hall, from the lectures of Drs. Wood and Bright,
respectively
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 2 id15128
Notebook #8--Notes on Germanic institutions, and German history, taken by John Lesslie Hall.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 3 id15129
Notes on Gothic literature, Anglo-Saxon phonology, and Anglo-Saxon literature, taken by John Lesslie Hall, from the lectures
of Dr. Wood [and possible others].
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 4 id15130
Notebook #1O--Notes on Old English grammar and literature, taken by John Lesslie Hall.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 5 id15131
Notebook #11--Notes on Piers Plowman, Chaucer, and Middle English
1888
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 6 id15132
Notebook #12--Notes on Prussian history, German history, English history, German literature, Middle-High German grammar, Scottish
literature, and sources of Shakespeare's plays, taken by John Lesslie Hall
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 7 id15133
Notebook #13--Notes on early churches of Jamestown
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 8 id15134
Notebook #14--Notes on the weak adjective in Anglo-Saxon and Old English grammar, taken by John Lesslie Hall
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 9 id15135
Notebook #15--Notebook containing stanza of unidentified poem
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