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"The History of the two Maids of More-clacke, with the life and simple maner of John in the Hospitall . . . Written by Robert Armin . . . London: Printed by N.O. for Thomas Archer . . . 1609"

1. pp. 1-66: a copy of the play from the original edition (this piece appears not to be in Crawford's hand, but looks more like the hand of the Concordance to Lyly's Euphues above)
2. A Concordance to Hamlet, The Quarto of 1603 (Aldis Wright's Reprint) & The Folio Play (modernised by Professor E. Dowden; only the beginning of the Concordance appears, from "A" to "Believe" (pp. 69-105, in a hand quite different from Crawford's)
3. openings [unnumbered], 1-54: An alphabetical subject-index to Robert Allott's England's Parnassus (1600) (each subject divided into eight columns that cover a two-page opening [a facing verso and recto], six columns on the verso and two on the recto; beginning with the second verso of the index the openings are numbered from 1 to 54; the subject-index proper contains 1823 numbered items beginning with "Angels" and ending with "Youth" (both this and the next item are in Crawford's hand); the columns are headed: "No." (from 1 to 1823), "Page in Collier" [Collier's Reprints Vol. 3] (from 1 to 383), "Attributed to," "Found in," "References and Date," "Beginning of Quotation," "No. of lines adduced," and "Notes")
4. openings 54-72: Additional subject-indexes in the same format (numbered 1824 to 2331 and covering pp. 383-582 in Collier), divided into sections: "The Division of the Day Naturall," "Poetical Descriptions," "Poetical Comparisons," and "Miscellanea," each section having a number of sub-divisions; with "End" on opening 72

(an unbound chunk of 42 unnumbered pages in three parts, all in Crawford's hand; probably part of the original volume)

1. Index to Authors": 71 names, with references to where in the Parnassus they are found (34 pp.)
2. Summary of Results [from the previous Index] 31/10/1914" (4 pp.)
3. English Names and Writings mentioned and quoted in Burton's Anat[omy] of Melancholy," alphabetically arranged but ending in early C (4 pp.; some pages following May have been lost)

Concordance proper, from A to Z, pp. 1-394

"First lines of Poems, and the Signatures appended to them." (p. 397: Description of his procedure in what follows; pp. 398-489: On each two-page opening the numbered poem or poems are on the even-numbered page and the signatures of the five editions on the odd-numbered page; pp. 398-471: Poems of the 1576 edition (numbered 1-99); pp. 472-85: Poems in the 1580 edition not in the 1576 edition (numbered 100-17); pp. 486-89: Poems printed in the 1596 edition for the first time (numbered 118-24); pp. 488-89 bottom: An additional poem found only in the 1578 edition (numbered 125))

(see also the file Non-MED Materials: EMED in box 13))

(Primarily by Russell Fraser, chairman of the Department of English, partly by Richard W. Bailey, chiefly soliciting matching funds for a future grant application to the National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH]; plus a copy of the unsuccessful application for an NEH grant submitted in October 1968.)