1135. A Classification of Ideas and Words
A. MS., n.p., [c.1897], pp. 1-11, incomplete; plus pp.
1-11 of a second draft and 159 pp. of variants.
Worksheets for a proposed "Book of Divisions, or
Index raisonee of Ideas and Words." This work
was to have served the double purpose of replacing
Roget's Thesaurus and of providing an all-in-one encyclopaedia.
The work-sheets contain elaborate classifications of
the arts and sciences, the fountain head of which is
the three categories. In connection with possible publication,
CSP corresponded with B. E. Smith of the Century Company.
See CSP - B. E. Smith correspondence.
1136. Classification of Words
A. MS., notebook, n.p., n.d.
Physiological terms. The principle is adopted that as
many words as possible should be classified from the
standpoint of their relations to human life.
1137. The Natural History of Words
A. MS., notebook, n.p., January 1859.
Words classified under the following headings: Persons
(I, It, Thou); the Senses (Light, Sound, Taste, Smell,
Feeling, Sight, Hearing, Optics, Acoustics); and Intuition
(Space).
1138. [Classification of Words]
A. MS., notebook, n.p., n.d.
1139. [Classification of Ideas and Words]
A. MS., notebook, n.p., February 3, 1904.
Tentative studies of classification, interspersed with
miscellaneous thoughts on cenoscopy. Important Latin
words. Elaborate classification of German philosophers
into Aristotelians, Baconians, Spinozists, etc.
1140. A Scientific Book of Synonyms in the English Language,
classified according to their meanings on a definite
and stated philosophy
A. MS., n.p., begun October 13, 1857, 8 pp.
The list of words includes "consciousness,"
"life," "soul," "intrinsicality,"
"essence," "existence," "substantiality,"
"being," "entity," and "subsistence."
1141. The Synonyms of the English Language, classified
according to their meanings and a definite and stated
philosophy
A. MS., n.p., begun October 13, 1857, 6 pp.
The list of words is similar to that of MS. 1140.
1142. A Scientific Book of Synonyms
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 8 pp.
Preface only. Why works similar to the kind CSP plans
have failed, with specific criticism of Graham's Synonyms
and Whateley's Synonyms.
DICTIONARIES
1143. A Little Dictionary of Choice English Words
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 8 folded sheets and a single half-sheet
(27 pp.).
A specimen list of words, with all "inelegant and
ambiguous" words excluded.
1144. [Comparative Studies of Several Dictionaries]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 35 pp.
1145. [Annotated and Corrected Proofs for Baldwin's
Dictionary: A-Dir]
Proofs, n.p., n.d.
These proofs were in CSP's possession. The corrections,
however, are by Morsalli, another contributor to Baldwin's
Dictionary.
1146. C. S. Peirce. Critical Notes to Baldwin's Phil.
Dict. (Notes to B's D)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-9, with rejected pp. 2 and
3.
"Abacus" and "abduction."
1147. [Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 471 pp., with variants.
The definitions are principally of logical words and
include the following: "energy," "firstness,"
"image," "implicit," "information,"
"informed breadth," "informed depth,"
'insolubilia," "involution," "kind,"
"knowledge," "laws of thought,"
"leading principle," "logic" (over
100 pp.), "logical graphs," "mathematical
logic," "matter" and "form,"
"maxim," "metrics," "middle
term," "mnemonic verses," "modality,"
"mood, " "multiplication," "multitude,
" "necessity," "negation,"
"norm," "nota notae," "numerical,"
"post hoc ergo propter hoc," "parsimony,"
"power," "precision," "predicable,"
"predicate," "probable inference,"
"proof," "quantity," "relation,"
"signify," "simple," "sophism,"
"subject," "sublation," "solution,"
"sufficient reason," "syllogism,"
"symbolic logic," "Tertium Quid,"
"theory," "truth," "uniformity,"
"unity," "universal, " "universe,"
"vague, " "whole."
1148. [Notes for Baldwin's Dictionary]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 8 pp.
1149. [Galton's Law]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-9, with several discarded
attempts.
For the Century Dictionary. Two interpretations of Galton's
law of ancestral heredity, one of which conforms to
Darwin's views of evolution and the other to Weissman's.
Brief comments on Karl Pearson's law of ancestral heredity
(in the second edition of the Grammar of Science).
1150. Logarithm (Copy J)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 16 pp. of at least three drafts;
plus 2 pp. on a method of solving a numerical equation.
Drafts for the Century Dictionary.
1151. [Planimeter]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 6 pp.
Draft of a Century Dictionary article.
1152. English Color Names
A. MS., small brown notebook," n.p., May 1892.
1153. Some Color-Names
A. MS., very small thin brown notebook, n.p., May 1892.
1154. [Notes on Color Words and Words about Luminosity]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 35 pp.
Includes notes on imperfections of the Century Dictionary,
especially with regard to the definition of some color
terms and the omission of others.
1155. [Definitions]
TS. (corrected), n.p., n.d., 9 pp.
Color and light words, for the most part. Alphabetically
arranged: "capillarity" to "color-blindness."
For the Century Dictionary, with a note to B. E. Smith.
1156. [Notes for a Philosophical Dictionary]
A. MS., notebook, n.p., [1865-69].
Extensive notes on philosophical terms from A to Z.
1157. Specimens of bad definitions in the Century Dictionary
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
1158. C. S. P.'s Definitions in Century Dictionary.
Notes.
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 11 pp.
The list is incomplete.
I
1159. Funk and Wagnall's Dictionary
A. MS., notebook, n.p., n.d.
Comments on the Dictionary, along with notes on accented
and unaccented vowels and on initial and single medial
consonants. Some mathematical notes.
1160. [Notes on Funk and Wagnall's Dictionary]
A. MS., notebook, n.p., n.d.
1161. Omissions and Errors of Oxf. Dictionary
A. MS., notebook, n.p., n.d.
Also included are notes on unphonetic spellings as well
as notes on an experimental project for a little Greek
dictionary.
1162. [Criticism of Murray's Dictionary]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 7 pp.
1163. C. S. P.'s contributions. Definitions written
or critically examined
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p.
For the Century Dictionary.
1164. Point, n
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 35 pp.
For the Century Dictionary. Examples of usage.
1165. [Century Dictionary]
TS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
List of some of the planetoids, their discoverers, and
dates of discovery.
1166. [Century Dictionary]
TS. (annotated), n.p., n.d., 24 pp.
"Particular" to "pyrronism."
1167. [Century Dictionary]
TS. (annotated), n.p., n.d., pp. 1-30 (p. 3 missing);
plus 1 p. on "Cologne Water."
"Earth" to "ethics."
1168. [Century Dictionary]
TS. (annotated), n.p., n.d., 20 pp.
List of words in P.
1169. Mathematical Definitions in Q
A. MS., n.p., [1890?], pp. 1-18, incomplete; plus pp.
20-107 of a typescript (annotated) which begins "Mathematical
Words in Q; Continued."
For the Century Dictionary. "Quadrangle,"
"quadrant," "quadratic," "quadric,"
"quadrilateral," "quadrivium,"
"quantity. "
1170. [Notes for Contributions to the Century Dictionary]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 73 pp.
Kempe's terminology of logic. Index to Kempe's theory
of mathematical form.
Definitions of "apeiry," "Cantorian,"
"cardinal number," "dyadic," "egoism,"
"eleuthercism," "empiriocriticism,"
"energism," "perlation," "system,"
"topology," among others.
1171. [Century Dictionary Supplement]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 3 pp.
Definitions of "conceptual time" and "conceptual
space."
1172. An English Lesson
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p., incomplete.
The meaning of the word "sequestered," as
illustrated in passages from Shakespeare, Pope, Cowper,
and others.
1173. Copy B. Universal, n
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p.
1174. Specimen of a Dictionary of the Terms of Logic
and the Allied Sciences. A-ABS
A. MS., n.p., November 1867, 32 pp.
These pages spell out the dictionary for which MS. 1156
was a preliminary study.
1175. Examples of Mathematical Definitions Suitable
for Imperial Dictionary
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
"Curve" and "continuant."
1176. [Plan for a scientific dictionary to be called
"Summa Scientiae, or, Summary of Human Knowledge"]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 32 pp.
Two outlines are actually presented. One of these is
for a work whose title is tentatively given as "Synopsis,
or Digest of Human Knowledge."
1177. [Fragments]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 13 pp.
One page is labelled "Index to Peirce's Corrections
to Words in A." Definitions of "collection,"
"normative," "evil," among others.
Distinction between a liquid and a fluid.
SPELLING
1178. An Apology for Modern English
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902?], pp. 1-37.
The changes in spelling and the changes in pronunciation
are independent of each other. An attempt to show that
English as it is written is a dialect distinct from
English as it is spoken.
1179. An Apology for English Spelling
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902?], pp. 1-30 (pp. 28-29 missing),
with variants.
An earlier draft of MS. 1178.
1180. An Apology for English Spelling
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-28 (pp. 3-5 missing), with
several discarded pages. An earlier draft of MSS. 1178
and 1179.
1180. The Editor's Manual (EM)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-92 (p. 47 missing), with many
discarded pages; plus 4 pp. of still other attempts
(Ed. Man.).
The alphabet. How English spelling is determined, with
involved comparisons from Shakespeare, Pope, Crashaw,
Lord Brooke, Drayton, Donne.
1181. English Spelling (Spelling)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-4
Early draft of MS. 1184.
1183. English Spelling (Spelling)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-10,
Early draft of MS. 1184.
1184. English Spelling (ES)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-64, with 72 pp. of variants
and worksheets.
CSP notes his forty years' study of the general subject
and his first paper in the field written in collaboration
with John B. Noyes and published in North American
Review, April 1864, under the title "Shakespearian
Pronunciation" (G-1864-1). Phonetics and the system
of spelling. Rules for determining spelling by the
sound of the vowels, with exceptions noted. Rules for
doubling of consonants, with examples and exceptions
to the rules.
1185. Note A
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 24 pp.
This note is referred to on p. 17 of MS. 1184. The history
of the spelling of certain words as given in the Oxford
Dictionary, showing that English spelling became relatively
fixed with the multiplication of printing presses.
1186. Spelling (S)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-22; plus 20 pp. of earlier
drafts.
Composition of the alphabet. History of the alphabet,
chirography, and typography.
1187. Rules for representing the "long low back
round vowel" AU in mod-ern English Spelling
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 5 pp.
1188. Spelling of the Vowel Sounds. Short Vowels
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 26 pp.
1189. [Worksheets on Vowel Changes]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 57 pp.
Vowel changes from Anglo-Saxon (and other languages)
to modern English.
1190. Spellings of Minsheu
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 8 pp.
1191. Change of Spelling since Minsheu 1633
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-7; plus 1 p.
1192. Spelling in Passions of the Minde 1604
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 4 pp.
1193. [Notes on the History of Spelling]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 22 pp.
1194. Disputed Spellings (Disputed Spellings)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-7 (p. 2 missing).
1195. Peculiar (Peculiar)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 3 pp.
Peculiar spellings.
1196. Dangers of Misspelling
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p.
1197. Miscellaneous Notes (Miscellaneous)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
1198. (Double L)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-4.
1199. (E Final)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-6; plus 2 pp.
1200. Words from French not traced further as to silent
e
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
1201. [Worksheets]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 31 pp.
List of words in which various sounds and letter combinations
occur and in which some letters are silent.
1202. Spelling
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 20 pp., written largely on the backs
of discarded pages of MS. 1184; plus a single page
variant.
1203. English Spelling
A. MS., notebook, n.p., n.d.
In addition there is a single page (not from the notebook
but found with it) speculating on the origin of the
words "impeach" and "dispatch."
1204. [English Orthography]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 6 pp.
Draft(s) of a letter to The Nation, commenting on a
proposal to simplify English spelling. The proposal
is contained in the enclosed circulars which bear the
dates May 18, 1905 and April 30, 1907.
1205. [Notes on English Grammar and Orthography]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 4 pp.
1206. Standard Orthography (A1)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p.
Graphical symbolization of phonetic elements.
1207. [Worksheets on Words Ending in "able"]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 13 pp.
1208. The Principal Suffixes, and their effect upon
a Final Consonant following a Single Vowel
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 40 pp., with 7 pp. of variants;
plus pp. 1-60 ("Suffixes").
1209. Latin Suffixes (Latin Suffixes)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1 5.
1210. Notes on Chemical Suffixes and Prefixes
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 5 pp.
1211. Reply to Inquiries of Etymologists concerning
scientific prefixes and suffixes
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
1212. Reply to the Etymologist
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p. incomplete.
1213. [Worksheets on Affixes]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 15 pp.
MISCELLANEOUS
1214. [Terminology of Grammar]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 23 pp.
The grammarian and the logician. Notes on the history
of grammar.
1215. [Worksheets on Grammar]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p.
1216. [Grammatical and Syntactical Notes]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 3 pp.
Modes of inflection. The possessive, genitive, and instrumental.
Analysis of the verb "to revolve," and a
note on the reform of language.
1217. Enumeration of Tenses
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
1218. Wilson's Rules for the Use of Commas
A. MS., notebook, n.p., n.d.
1219. Jottings on Punctuation
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-7, with an unnumbered variant.
On the use of the period and the comma. Examples from
Goold Brown's The Institutes of English Grammar. CSP
claims that his rules can cover every case of the use
of the comma more clearly and more easily than Brown's
seventeen rules and slightly fewer exceptions.
1220. Jottings on Punctuation (J on P)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-17.
The colon and semi-colon. Samples from various writers
Ruskin, Emerson, De Quincey.
1221. Jottings on Punctuation (,)
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902?], pp. 1-27.
On the comma. Psychological principles underlying punctuation.
The necessity of keeping punctuation to the minimum.
1222. [On English Pronunciation in the Elizabethan Era]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 70 pp. (for the most part in the
hand of John Buttrick
Noyes).
Draft of G-1864-1.
1223. The Sound of e in "end"
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 10 pp.; plus 10 pp. which are part
of another draft which ran to at least p. 17.
1224. Notes on English Grammar
A. MS., small notebook, n.p., n.d.
1225. [Vernacular and Literary English]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p.
"It is I" and "It's me."
1226. Characteristics of Languages
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 4 pp.
A comparison of several languages (Japanese, Tibetan,
Dravidian, Eskimo, etc.) in several respects. Notes
on Adelaide language.
1227. [Notes on Egyptian Hieroglyphs]
A. MS., notebook, n.p., March 22, 1898.
1228. [Notes on Egyptian Hieroglyphs]
A. MS., notebook, n.p., January 21, 1893.
1229. [Miscellaneous Notes on Greek]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 70 pp.
Index to the Introduction of C. C. Smith's Odes to Horace.
Notes on Horace's Greek constructions. Ancient Greek
pronunciation and grammar. Greek tenses and Greek names.
A comparison of Greek and Indo-Germanic prepositions
Also a draft of a letter, March 16, 1904, to an unnamed
and unidentified person concerning anapestic tetrameters
in the Clouds of Aristophanes.
1230. [Notes on Greek and Latin Color Words]
A. MS., notebook, n.p., n.d.
Also included here are notes on number theory.
1231. [Table of the Occurrence and Derivation of Words
in Plato's Crito]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
1232. Pronunciation of Greek
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 folded sheet (3 pp.).
1233. Forms [Greek] to be remembered
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 folded sheet (4 pp.).
1234. Notes on Grammar, etc.
A. MS., n.p., n.d., notebook.
Notes are on German grammar exclusively.
1235. [Notes on Italian]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 5 pp.
1236. Principles of Spanish Grammar
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 6 pp.
1237. Mnemonic Rule for the use of a and de with French
infinitives following personal verbs (FV)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-34, with a discarded p. 1;
plus an "Index to the Examples" (5 pp.) and
4 worksheets.
1238. French Verbs followed with an infinitive regime
(FV)
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-l9
1239. Regles du Regime Verbe
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 3 folded sheets (12 pp.).
1240. [On the Use of a and de]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 charts.
1241. Lane's Hidden Quantities
A. MS., small notebook, n.p., n.d.; plus 8 pp. (same
title).
Notes for a Latin dictionary.
1242. [Transcript from a Latin Arithmetic]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p.
1243. An Arabic Grammar
A. MS., notebook, n.p., n.d.
1244. [Fragments on Greek, Latin, Egyptian and Cuneiform]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 72 pp.
Also includes a draft of a letter to a French journal;
a note on the correct spelling of "dispatch";
and an extensive draft of a lecture on dictionaries
(14 PP).
1245. [Fragments on Arabic, Hebrew, Cuneiform (including
a transliteration of the Semitic alphabet)]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 101 pp.
1246. [The Study of Languages Based Upon Translations
of the New Testament]
A. MS., n.p., April 25, 1902, January 24, 1910, and
n.d., 3 pp., 3 pp., and 9 pp. Study of an agglutinative
language (3 pp.). Study of Tagalog (3 pp.). Study of
several dialects Gaelic, Welsh, etc. (9 pp.).
1247. The Beauties of Ebratum
TS. (corrected), n.p., n.d., 4 pp.
The translation of Ebratum into Hombrush. The principal
rule orthography.
1248. Numerals of Many Tongues
A. MS., notebook, n.p., [c.1892-93?].
1249. The Cardinal Digets in Several Languages
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 pp.
* 1250. [Fragments on Numbers]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 6 pp.; plus 2 sheets.
Our present numerical figures converted into the secundal
system and then given names (6 pp.). The names of numbers
in different languages, principally Hungarian (2 sheets).
1251. [Fragment on Numerals]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 3 pp.
Numerals as a class of words stand out in that, with
respect to them, various languages so precisely translate
each other.
1252. [Lists of Words]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 6 PP.
"English Words of One Syllable" heads one
of the lists.
1253. List of Interesting Words
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 2 PP.
From pp. 1-20 of the Century Dictionary.
1254. Examples of words whose meaning is affected by
phrase
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p.
Comments upon the words "adversity," "frosty,"
and "wrought."
1255. [Lines from Browning ending in the Letter K]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 5 pp.; plus 8 pp. of a poem entitled
"Friendship" by Cowper (copied out in CSP's
hand).
There is no indication of the kind of study, if any,
for which the quotations from Browning and the poem
by Cowper were to be used.
1256. [Assorted Fragments]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 57 pp.; plus a small notebook.
Several indices, wordlists, and a classification of
words (some of which may have been intended for CSP's
proposed Thesaurus). The notebook is titled "An
Index to the Causeries du Lundi."
1257. [Index to Boswell's Life of Johnson]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 33 pp.
1258. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 5 pp.
Chapter by chapter notation of alcoholic consumption.
1259. [Rules for editing A Midsummer Night's Dream]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 p.
1260. [Notes on Horace's Meter]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 4 pp.
1261. [Fragments]
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 110 pp., of which 62 PP. of an index
are not in CSP's hand. Classification of words, wordlists,
indices.