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Grammatical notes on Latin.

 Item — Folder: 1, Object: 5
Identifier: Item 5

Scope and Contents

From the File:

A lined Latin "Handybook" containing Latin grammartical structures and vocabulary. Handwriting on the inside front cover the schools where which T. Davis may have learned Latin: Dragon School (1962-1968) and Leighton Park School (1968-1970). Another note reads "rebound Winter '68 by Nigel Nicholson." Handwritten name on the front cover the notebook reads: Tim Davis. At the end of the book are letters loosely inserted. The letters are addressed to his parents.

Tucked in the front is a folded letter and four envelopes.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Sequence of Tenses, Final Clause (reason or Purpose), Consecutive Clause, Indirect Command, Indirect Statement, Infinitives, Participles, Indirect Question, Concessive Clauses (Fact and Possibility), Verbs of Fearing, Adverbs of Place, Conditional Clauses, Declensions, Dates, Active, Deponent and Passive Verbs, Prolative Infinitive, Scansion, Gerunds and Gerundives, "Than" Phrases, Gerund vs. Gerundives, Verbs introducing accusitive and infinitive, Interrogative Words, Subjunctives, Roman Letter Handwriting, Gerund (verbal noun, active), Impersonal Verbs, Conjunctions, Conditionals with Indicatives and Subjunctives, Verbs of Hindering and Preventing, Scansion (continued), Quin, Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Speech, Roman Calender, Julian Calendar, Pentameters, Compound of Gradior in Past Participle, Word lists, Summer Term, Temporal Clauses Words, Adverbs of Quantity.

Dates

  • Creation: 1773-1990
  • Creation: Majority of material found within Bulk 1938-1990
  • Other: Date acquired: 01/24/2007

Creator

Extent

From the Collection: 45 Volumes (approximately 2.25 linear feet) : 45 volumes in 2 boxes

From the Collection: 1 boxes (Contains volumes 1-19)

From the Collection: 2 boxes (Contains volumes 20-45)

Language of Materials

Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
Zhang Legacy Collections Center
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Kalamazoo MI 49008-5307 US
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