The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

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New English dictionary on historical principles
Oxford English dictionary
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography
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