Folger Shakespeare Library Collections

Abstract Letters and other documents from 68 authors, written almost exclusively in German and mostly pertaining to the works of Shakespeare. The items range in date from 1777-1912, although most of them fall within the nineteenth-century. More than three-quarters of the items are letters, many from the Augustin Daly collection. Also included are newspaper clippings, a short biography, an encomium, poetry and translations, a 21 folio typescript called “Nochmals Shakespeares Totenmaske” (along with...

Abstract 650 letters, mostly autograph letters signed (ALS). Leo was editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch from 1880-1898; much of the correspondence illuminates the early history of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft and Shakespeare studies in Germany, England, and the United States. Several concern the theatre. A few include poems. In addition, H.A. Bulthaupt and H.H. Furness mention Edwin Booth [Y.c.1510 (2, 3); Y.c.1530 (13, 16)]; Furness refers to a Shakespeare Calendar...