‘Doctor Syntax’
Material that I have collected on ‘Dr Syntax’: 1820s’ John Sheriff: Early 1800s sketchbook and lecture notes by John Sheriff: Early 1800s sketchbook and lecture notes by John Sheriff: 1804 … Continue reading ‘Doctor Syntax’
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On book-readers’ marginalia
By Robert Frost, 3 October 1916 [Retford and Worksop Herald and North Notts Advertiser]:
the footnotes and marginalia
I write in the margins of the books that I read. I never do so to correct the author. I need marginalia to help me find my way back to … Continue reading the footnotes and marginalia