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Delia Salter Bacon papers
Collection
Identifier: B33345
Abstract
Includes 312 autograph letters signed and initialed and one typed letter signed to and from Delia Bacon and others; 10 miscellaneous items including prospectuses of Delia Bacon, her The author's apology and claim, [1857?], an engraving of Leonard Bacon, a memorandum of an agreement between Delia Bacon and Samuel Coleman, an inventory of school items to be sold at a private sale in 1831 and payments to various people for sums due, and 3 newspaper clippings.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1827-1859,; 1820-1952
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of Nathaniel Bacon
Collection
Identifier: B33638
Abstract
Contains papers and letters relating to Bacon's career: 11 papers relating to his work as Justice of the Peace, including a paternity case, and 5 papers concerning a case brought forward by a Nicholas Ringolde for money owed; 3 papers as Clerk of Methwold and Deputy Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster; and 26 papers relating to the Norfolk Militia, of which 6 concern an inquiry into the number of forces raised and paid in Norfolk, 1594-1595 and 20 concern the musters in Norfolk, 1603-1620,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1574-1650 ( 1590-1622); 1574 - 1650
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of the Bacon-Townshend family of Stiffkey, Norfolk, 1550-1640
Collection
Identifier: B33869
Abstract
Letters and documents concerned with family, business, estate, financial, legal, and governmental affairs of Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1547-1622), Sir Nicholas Bacon (1509-1579), and members of the Townshend family, all of Norfolk. A few items are earlier than 1550 or later than 1640.
Dates:
1550-1640
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire
Collection
Identifier: B34684
Abstract
Primarily autograph letters signed, dating from 1557-1671, especially of Richard Bagot and of his son Walter. They are letters to them, letters from them (some of them drafts written on blank parts of letters addressed to them) and copies made by them of letters addressed to others, especially of official letters. The letters cover a wide range of topics and amply illustrate the life of a prosperous county family the multifarious duties it members were called upon to perform for the Crown....
Dates:
1428-1671 (bulk 1557-1671); Majority of material found within 1557 - 1671
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of Robert Bennet
Collection
Identifier: B46763
Abstract
Contains mostly Bennet's official papers and reflect the shifting fortunes of the Parliamentarians and Royalists. Many of the official papers concern or are from both houses of Parliament, and the Council of State. Among the personal papers are several concerning law-suits and other business matters, a few deeds, Hannibal Vyvyan's directions to Colonel Bennet when he was sick in 1649 (155), and letters to and from fellow Anabaptists at Looe, 1656. A few miscellaneous documents seem to have...
Dates:
1603-1678 (bulk 1642-1663); Majority of material found within 1642 - 1663
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Edwin Booth autograph correspondence
Collection
Identifier: B66586
Abstract
Letters from Edwin Booth to various recipients. A large portion of the letters (approximately 307 items) are addressed to theatre critic William Winter.
Dates:
1858-1893
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Letters of the Booth family of Twemlow
Collection
Identifier: B66894
Abstract
The letters of the Booth family of Twemlow consist of two series of letters from different generations of the family: the first contains letters from William Booth (b. 1602) to his brother, John Booth (1584-1659), and the second comprises letters of Thomas Booth (b. 1646) to his brother, another John Booth (1641-1698). The letters intersperse discussion of family and business matters with contemporary accounts of military and political events.
Dates:
1628-1689
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Drue Burton collection of state papers and other materials
Collection
Identifier: B87378
Abstract
The call number for this collection is G.b.10.Contents include copies of documents taken from Richard Hakluyt's Principal navigations, 1598-1600 (fol. 1v-18v), and of others relating to Irish affairs from Part II of Fynes Moryson's An itinerary ..., 1617 (fol. 19r-35v). Also, contemporary copies of Sir Ralph Winwood's papers when principal secretary of state, 1614-1617, with a few from an earlier and a later date, as well as many petitions; letters of recommendation; letters to...
Dates:
approximately 1607-1625
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Papers of the Cavendish-Talbot family
Collection
Identifier: C38835
Abstract
Mostly consists of correspondence, as well as various financial documents, warrants, petitions, orders, physician instructions and other miscellaneous documents relating to the Cavendish, Talbot, Wentworth, and Slingsby families as well as to Sir Humphrey Style, and Stanley and Sarah Gower.
Dates:
1333-1705 (bulk 1548-1676); Majority of material found within 1548 - 1676
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Autograph letters signed and initialled from John Payne Collier to various recipients
Collection
Identifier: C65547
Abstract
Letters written by John Payne Collier, mostly from later in his life. Also, newspaper clippings about the forgery controversy. Items not collected together until Folger staff created this collection.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1830-1882; 1824-1882
Found in:
Folger Shakespeare Library
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- Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685 2
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- Lyceum Theatre (London, England) 2
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- Nichols, J. B. (John Bowyer), 1779-1863 2
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- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 2
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- Rodd, Thomas, 1796-1849 2
- Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, Earl of, 1552-1616 2
- Siddons, Sarah , 1755-1831 2
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 2
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- Young, Robert, 1927-2008 2
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- Bagot, Walter, 1557?-1623 1
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