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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 155842 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 72 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 letter 1 history 1 footnote 1 constable 1 Walter 1 Street 1 Southey 1 Sir 1 Scott 1 Scotland 1 Review 1 Quarterly 1 Murray 1 Mrs. 1 Mr. 1 Moore 1 Memoirs 1 March 1 Lord 1 London 1 Lockhart 1 Life 1 Lady 1 John 1 James 1 Gifford 1 George 1 England 1 Edinburgh 1 Dr. 1 Disraeli 1 December 1 DEAR 1 Croker 1 Canning 1 Byron 1 Blackwood 1 Ballantyne Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 475 work 442 letter 306 time 257 friend 245 article 238 book 218 man 206 author 189 publisher 188 day 186 year 164 business 154 publication 144 opinion 143 number 139 subject 133 part 130 life 128 name 125 edition 122 poem 119 correspondence 111 volume 105 hand 102 matter 98 nothing 97 interest 93 history 91 paper 91 footnote 89 money 87 way 87 thing 86 account 84 editor 83 copy 80 course 78 house 76 person 76 character 75 death 73 sum 73 case 73 anything 71 one 71 feeling 70 copyright 69 view 69 month 69 arrangement Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 2894 _ 1547 Mr. 1412 Murray 443 Lord 435 Byron 397 Scott 393 John 269 Sir 219 Gifford 213 Edinburgh 207 Review 146 Quarterly 143 London 139 Mrs. 136 Moore 134 Walter 130 Lockhart 123 Southey 122 Blackwood 107 . 103 Memoirs 99 Ballantyne 95 Disraeli 94 Croker 89 Life 87 George 85 Lady 81 Street 76 MS 76 James 75 SIR 71 Canning 70 D''Israeli 70 Constable 67 England 66 Dr. 58 Thomas 58 December 54 March 53 Scotland 51 W. 51 Rev. 51 October 51 Coleridge 50 Don 49 Miss 48 November 48 Albemarle 47 Spain 47 Robert Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 2883 i 1719 he 1555 it 1333 you 750 me 656 him 325 we 267 they 258 them 146 himself 117 myself 100 us 71 yours 55 she 39 yourself 39 her 28 themselves 25 itself 19 one 11 ourselves 9 mine 5 ours 5 his 4 thee 3 herself 2 theirs 1 ye 1 southey 1 oneself 1 on''t 1 hers Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 5317 be 2378 have 551 do 518 write 411 say 359 make 314 think 309 publish 295 give 232 take 227 know 220 see 185 send 170 receive 166 find 160 go 158 follow 147 appear 128 tell 126 become 125 come 121 read 119 get 117 call 112 leave 109 wish 109 propose 99 offer 99 hear 90 consider 84 believe 80 feel 79 pay 79 meet 77 seem 77 let 76 put 76 hope 75 mention 74 show 74 continue 73 return 71 remain 71 bring 70 print 69 ask 63 look 61 accept 60 add 58 lead Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1115 not 436 very 356 so 292 most 292 more 270 first 256 much 256 good 252 well 250 now 245 great 223 other 207 as 184 own 177 only 164 many 144 long 143 then 141 never 134 last 133 such 132 new 130 however 129 little 120 too 119 up 118 out 113 even 111 ever 107 also 105 few 102 same 92 old 87 literary 86 here 86 dear 84 present 82 yet 79 still 77 again 76 far 75 perhaps 72 once 71 second 71 constable 70 therefore 69 early 67 next 65 already 65 afterwards Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 98 good 47 least 39 most 19 great 16 high 11 small 8 slight 7 fine 6 bad 5 deep 4 warm 4 early 3 wise 3 strong 3 near 3 dear 3 Most 2 wild 2 noble 2 low 2 late 2 eld 2 able 1 weak 1 true 1 staunch 1 sour 1 smart 1 sincere 1 short 1 shabby 1 safe 1 rich 1 remote 1 old 1 narrow 1 mean 1 manif 1 mad 1 long 1 large 1 j 1 happy 1 full 1 friend--_Punch_--who 1 fit 1 extreme 1 dull 1 correct 1 common Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 253 most 10 well 9 least Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 _ see _ 5 murray was not 4 murray did not 3 murray had long 3 scott was now 2 _ did not 2 _ know _ 2 _ publish _ 2 letter has not 2 murray had never 2 murray had now 2 murray was so 2 murray was very 2 work had not 1 _ are about 1 _ are nonsense 1 _ are regularly 1 _ be angry 1 _ be most 1 _ become more 1 _ become such 1 _ did _ 1 _ do not 1 _ give up 1 _ had _ 1 _ is _ 1 _ is about 1 _ is as 1 _ is better 1 _ is good 1 _ is here 1 _ is not 1 _ is now 1 _ is true 1 _ is yet 1 _ is £40,000 1 _ know as 1 _ leave _ 1 _ said _ 1 _ say _ 1 _ tell _ 1 _ thinking _ 1 _ was _ 1 _ was absolutely 1 _ was afterwards 1 _ was also 1 _ was first 1 _ was forthwith 1 _ was more 1 _ was not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ have no immediate 1 _ have no sort 1 article is not good 1 books is not always 1 business is not much 1 byron had not yet 1 byron was not satisfied 1 edinburgh was no more 1 gifford took no notice 1 letter did not effectually 1 letters was no longer 1 murray had no alternative 1 murray had no sooner 1 murray published no further 1 murray took no notice 1 murray was not forgetful 1 numbers have no sort 1 scott does not yet 1 time is not far 1 work had not yet 1 works were not always A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 10884 author = Smiles, Samuel title = A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 date = keywords = Ballantyne; Blackwood; Byron; Canning; Croker; DEAR; December; Disraeli; Dr.; Edinburgh; England; George; Gifford; James; John; Lady; Life; Lockhart; London; Lord; March; Memoirs; Moore; Mr.; Mrs.; Murray; Quarterly; Review; Scotland; Scott; Sir; Southey; Street; Walter; constable; footnote; history; letter summary = _Edinburgh Review_--John Murray''s letter to Mr. Canning--Walter Scott''s severe remarks on Charles Lamb--His remorse--_Quarterly Review_ No. 14--Murray''s offer to Southey of 1,000 guineas for his poem visits to Fleet Street--Murray''s letters to Byron--Gifford''s opinion of letter--Suppression of an article written for the _Edinburgh_--Mr. Murray''s collection of portraits of authors--Mr. Scott''s visit to numbers--Southey''s views as to the Editorship--Gifford''s letter to Mr. Canning--Appointment of Mr. J.T. Coleridge--Murray''s announcement of the Napier''s "History of the Peninsular War"--Origin of the work--Col. Napier''s correspondence with Murray--Publication of Vol. I.--Controversy aroused by it--Murray ceases to publish the work--His letter to the _Edinburgh Review_, Murray said to himself, ''Walter Scott has feelings, made Murray his agent for any new works published by him in Edinburgh. MURRAY''S DRAWING-ROOM--BYRON AND SCOTT--WORKS PUBLISHED IN 1815 MURRAY''S DRAWING-ROOM--BYRON AND SCOTT--WORKS PUBLISHED IN 1815 Towards the end of 1820 Lord Byron wrote a long letter to Mr. Murray on