Janus: John Alexander Ellis: Poems and notes

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John Alexander Ellis: Poems and notes

Title	John Alexander Ellis: Poems and notes
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.6145-6146
Creator	Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890
Covering Dates	1836–1843
Extent and Medium	2 volumes
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

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Alexander John Ellis (1814-1890), philologist and mathematician, was born on 14 June 1814 at Hoxton Middlesex, the son of James Birch Sharpe. He attended Shrewsbury School and Eton College, before matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1833 (B.A., 1837). In 1825 he changed his name to Ellis by Royal Licence. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1835. Ellis produced works on phonetics, pronounciation, dialects and orthography, and in 1843 arranged a new system of printing called phonotypy in collaboration with Sir Isaac Pitman. He was president of the Philological Society, 1872-1874 and 1880-1882. He died on 28 October 1890.

Includes sketches, verses and laws of various Cambridge societies, including the Theatrical Club. There are also autographs of members of Shrewsbury School.

Presented by Francis Jenkinson, 1917.

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Phonetics

University of Cambridge

Ellis, Alexander John (1814-1890) phonetician and mathematician

Manuscripts/MS Add.6145-6146 contains:

MS Add.6145

Poems. 78 folios. The text (fo. 4) is preceded by an extract from Goethe's Faust and a list of contents (fo. 2). The poems were possibly intended for publication as a supplementary volume to the author's Verses (Cambridge, 1836), but seem never to have been printed.
1 volume.

1836–1843

MS Add.6146

Poems and notes. 128 folios: extracts, laws of various Cambridge societies, including the Theatrical Club, sketches, verses, examples of phonetic script and other material. There are autographs of members of Shrewsbury School (fo. 98) and a letter from Ellis to Mrs Severn (fo. 112).
1 volume.

1836–1840