![]() ![]() What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. Back in America, he graduated as a surgeon from Yale Medical School in 1863, at the age of twenty-nine. Publishers Description: The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. The True Story Of Murder,madnes And An Extraordinary Friendship In The Nineteenth Century. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. ![]() ![]() Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Simon Winchesters The Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. ![]()
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