‘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’

Curious facts and fiction

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