[Book & ALSs] Frederick James Furnivall. A Volume of Personal Record. WITH: TWO Autograph Letters Signed F.J.F.

Short Biography by John Munro.Frederick James Furnivall A Volume of Personal Record with List of SubscribersRebound, hf-lea, rubbed, endpapers sl. stained, minior spinal damage, contents in good condition.83 preliminary pages and biography, 215 pages, black and white plates, good condition in original cloth binding, corners and top and bottom of spine bumped and slightly rubbed, edges of board rubbed with area of wear on the lower edge of the front board, some occasional dust marking and light spotting of the pages, small hole at lower margin of page 169/170, with 3 page list of subscribers who include May Morris, George Bernard Shaw, Walter Crane and J T Cobden-Sanderson. WITH. Two Autograph Letters Signed F.J.F. [F.J. Furnivall], with printed address, 2 Feb. 1872 and 17 Feb 1872, to unnamed correspondent (also interested in philology or involved with publishing?), good condition, torn edge where extracted from a book of addressed blanks[?]. Letter A (2 Feb): I am much obliged for your note, & am comforted by your feeling that the work is not out of scale for the purposes it has to fulfil. The particles & auxiliaries, except in special senses, shall {??]. The list of [?] missed words I had intended. I'll set to work at the Review tomorrow, & let you have a copy of it as soon as it's finished for final correction. Letter B (17 Feb.) Two very good questions of yours. 1 We really must have every prep[ositio]n & [?]. No one yet knows all the senses in which they are used. No one knows all the meanings of a [underlined] (I found it meaning his [underlined] the other day). Even and [underlined] is 'if' very often. 2. We must have the auxiliary [technical term unreadable by me] to show what verbs, if any, have given up be [underlined] for have [underlined] & vice versa. | I'll add a note of these to the Rules.