![]() Even after Murray realized Minor's true situation, he still regarded him as his most reliable source, a madman whose words were very much to be trusted. Elizabeths Hospital for the criminally insane in Washington. He remained there under guard for the next 37 years, until he was transferred to St. ![]() Minor, an American and a veteran of the Civil War, had killed a man in London and been sentenced to Broadmoor. The strange story of the interwoven lives of Murray and Minor is the subject of Simon Winchester's new book, ''The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.'' In 1872, in a moment of insanity, Dr. ![]() Murray, who had not yet met Minor, assumed that he was a ''practicing medical man of literary tastes with a good deal of leisure.'' To his astonishment, he turned out to be a patient in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. ![]() Minor, a surgeon residing in Crowthorne in the English countryside in Berkshire. The most prolific and faithful correspondent, represented by more than 10,000 entries, was Dr. James Murray began the challenging assignment of editing the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, a project of unprecedented historical and cultural importance, the call went out for volunteers to supply quotations to illustrate definitions. ![]()
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