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Kuhn era (1961-1983). Kuhn's correspondence is in box 11 (0.5 linear foot). His main correspondents were A.C. Cawley (Leeds), David C. Fowler (Washington), Katharine Garvin Gordon (an independent scholar who was working on an edition of a Middle English translation of Vegetius's De Re Militari), Britton Harwood (Miami of Ohio), Raven McDavid (Chicago), George Pace (Missouri), Robert A. Pratt (Illinois, then Pennsylvania), Roland M. Smith (Illinois), the University of Michigan Press, and Rudolph Willard (Texas; about Old English, Kuhn's primary interest before the MED). Head of production Richard McKelvey and associate editor John Reidy occasionally answered letters. Now that the editing plan for the MED was settled, and the fascicles were appearing on a regular schedule, Kuhn's correspondence frequently involved answering questions from readers and scholars about individual words, usually those not yet published.