Claim: James Gairdner published an edition of the Paston Letters, and contributed some seventy-seven fifteenth- and sixteenth-century biographies to the Dictionary of National Biography.
Evidence: He published an edition of the Paston Letters (London, 1872–1875, and again 1896); and he edited the Historical collections of a Citizen of London (London, 1876), and Three 15th-century Chronicles (London, 1880) for the Camden Society. He contributed some seventy-seven fifteenth- and sixteenth-century biographies to the Dictionary of National Biography, as well as articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Cambridge Modern History, and the English Historical Review.