Bibliography & Further Reading
- For the appreciation by Eric P. Hamp see ‘On Bonaparte and the NeoGrammarians as field workers,’ pp 390–400 in Dell Hymes (ed.) Studies in the History of Linguistics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974).
- Bonaparte's personal library was catalogued (in part) by Victor Collins prior to its sale. See Victor Collins, Attempt at a Catalogue of the Library of the late Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte (London: Henry Sotheran, 1894).
- The works referred to by Grant in his letter are properly the following: Ivar Andreas Aasen, Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog (Kristiania, 1850); Björn Halldórsson, Lexicon Islandico-Latino-Danicum, 2 vols (1814); Johan Ihre, Glossarium Suiogothicum, 2 vols (Uppsala, 1769); Heinrich Meidinger, Vergleichendes etymologisches Wörterbuch der gothisch-teutonischen Mundarten (Frankfurt, 1833); Christian Molbeck, Dansk Dialect-Lexikon, in 7 parts (Copenhagen, 1833–41). The ‘Bibliography’ in Vol VI of the English Dialect Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1905/81) mentions under ‘Shetland Islands’ as one of its sources ‘Bonaparte, Prince Louis Lucien.—A MS. Collection of Shetland words,’ p 38b.