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Lewis era (1983-2001). Lewis's correspondence occupies a full box (box 14; 1 linear foot). His main correspondents were Michael Adams (Albright), Larry Benson (Harvard), Christopher Cannon (Cambridge et al.), Margaret Laing (Edinburgh), Hiroyuki Matsumoto (an expert from Japan on the Middle English Destruction of Troy), Angus McIntosh (Edinburgh), the OED (beginning with Robert Burchfield, then Edmund Weiner, Elizabeth Knowles, and John Simpson), Eric Stanley (Oxford), and the University of Michigan Press. Letters were occasionally answered by MED editor Elizabeth S. Girsch. As in Kuhn's era, the correspondence frequently involved answering questions from readers and scholars about individual words, but in addition Lewis often asked for help from specialists on manuscript and textual readings (the responses to these latter letters may usually be found in the relevant word files of the MED proper, which are also housed at the Bentley Library). Part of Lewis's correspondence from the mid- to late 1990s on was electronic, and many of these messages, along with his replies, were printed out and added to the files.