A Guide to the Margaret Hench Underwood Letters, 1983-1987 Underwood, Margaret Hench Letters 10,000-f

A Guide to the Margaret Hench Underwood Letters, 1983-1987

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Accession Number 10,000-f

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

10,000-f

Title

Margaret Hench Underwood Letters 1983-1987

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of four letters.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Margaret Hench Underwood Letters, Accession #10,000-f, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These letters were given to the Library by Mrs. Oscar W. Underwood, III (Margaret Hench Underwood) of Winter Haven, Florida, on February 10, 1988.

Scope and Content

These four letters, 1983-1987, between Margaret Hench Underwood and Robert Burchfield, Chief Editor of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary , and James J. Kilpatrick, columnist and former editor of the Richmond News Leader , chiefly concern the value of the contributions of her father, Atcheson Hench, to the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary .

According to the August 11, 1986 issue of U.S. News and World Report , Hench read his way through thirty years worth of the Baltimore Sun and the Charlottesville Daily Progress "noting down everything that happened to occur during his professional lifetime," in order to provide the OED with examples of new word usages.