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Knott's correspondence was with many of the same Middle English scholars as Moore's, as well as with others: Hope Emily Allen (a well known independent scholar who also worked for the EMED for a time), Baugh, Bryan, H.H. Carter (Indiana; about his dictionary of Middle English musical terms), Sir William Craigie (former editor of the OED, editor at the time of the Dictionary of American English at the University of Chicago and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue in Edinburgh), John S. Kenyon (Hiram College; primarily about their joint book, A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, published in 1944), Kemp Malone (Johns Hopkins; also a member of the MLA's Advisory Committee), John M. Manly (Chicago), Savage, Kenneth Sisam (Oxford University Press), David Stevens (of the Rockefeller Foundation), J.S.P. Tatlock (California-Berkeley), and Clarence S. Yoakum (Dean of the University of Michigan Graduate School), as well as various volunteer readers. In addition to Knott, Fries, Meech, MED editor Harold Whitehall, and EMED editor Hereward Price answered letters.