Crime Mss

[Gerald Cohen]

   The first person to check with should be Al Futrell, who was
Maurer's assistant for many years. Would anyone on the ads-l list
know his whereabouts?

Gerald Cohen


>At 7:11 PM +0100 5/19/03, Jonathon Green wrote:
>In American Speech XVII:3 (Oct. 1942, pp 193-5) David Maurer
>reviewed a group of manuscripts edited/compiled by Joseph Blackwell,
>Jr., and Clinton Sanders:
>
>They included: Words of the Racket, 4 vols. ms., 452 pp. (7,638
>entries); Words of Trampdom, 1 vol. ms., 120 pp. (1,377 entries);
>Slang of Spangleland, 1 vol. ms., 106 pp. (2,033 entries); Cant of
>the Crafts, 1 vol. ms., 86 pp. (1,648 entries); Words of the
>Fighting Forces, 1 vol. ms., 97 pp (1,707 entries). .
>
>I have checked the Library of Congress and NY Public Library
>catalogs: they are listed in neither. Nor does either author apear
>to have published anything else (there is a book by one Clifton R
>Sanders on Cultural Criminology, but its date, 1995, makes the
>earlier Sanders an unlikely author). Nor does a further compilation,
>Words of America, also mentioned by Maurer, appear to have gone
>beyond a title.
>
>Would anyone know what became of these mss.? The odds are that
>Maurer gutted them for his own researches, so the terms may well not
>be lost (and may indeed be in other, published, dictionaries), but
>the originals would be of great interest.
>
>Jonathon Green