Besides this, I raised a fund in 1886 for collecting additional material in manuscript, and thus obtained a considerable quantity, which the Rev.A.Smythe Palmer, D.D., in the course of two years and a half, arranged in fair order.

But even in 1889 more was required, and the work was then taken in hand by Dr Joseph Wright, who gives the whole account of the means by which, in 1898, he was enabled to issue Vol.

I of the _English Dialect Dictionary_.

The sixth and concluding volume of this most valuable work was issued in 1905.
To this I refer the reader for all further information, which is there given in a very complete form.

At the beginning is a Preface explaining the history of the book; followed by lists of voluntary readers, of unprinted MS.