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Eighteenth century

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to John Payne Collier from various correspondents

 Collection
Identifier: C65586
Abstract

Letters to John Payne Collier from various correspondents, including some addressed to other recipients and forwarded to Collier. Letters refer to manuscript editing, editions of Collier's writing on Shakespeare and English Drama, and assorted events within membership ranks of literary and antiquarian societies.

Dates: 1799-1884
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Letters to John Payne Collier from various correspondents

Records of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres

 Collection
Identifier: D78368
Abstract

Descriptive lists of records of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres. Includes lists of journals, nightly accounts, pay books, records of the wardrobe keepers, lists of plays with casts, inventories, etc. with dates.

Dates: 1714-1880
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Records of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres

Papers of the Ferrers Family of Tamworth Castle

 Collection
Identifier: F47836
Abstract

Family and official papers of the Ferrers family of Tamworth Castle dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century (mostly mid-sixteenth century to mid-seventeenth century) concerning the family's political, legal, financial, personal, and manorial affairs mostly in Derbyshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire.

Dates: 1371-1806 (bulk 16th - 17th century); Majority of material found within 1500 - 1600
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Papers of the Ferrers Family of Tamworth Castle

Guide to the Playbills Relating to the Theatrical Career of David Garrick

 Collection
Identifier: G37753
Abstract

A guide to the playbills in the Folger Shakespeare Library relating to the professional career of David Garrick, spanning the years 1741-1776.

Dates: 1741-1776
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Guide to the Playbills Relating to the Theatrical Career of David Garrick

Guide to Letters and Papers by German Authors, 1777-1912

 Collection
Identifier: G47388
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...
Dates: 1777-1912
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Guide to Letters and Papers by German Authors, 1777-1912

Nichols family papers relating chiefly to The gentleman's magazine

 Collection
Identifier: N53446
Abstract

Printed and manuscript material, including proofs, letters, reviews, clippings, poems, obituaries, announcements, and business papers, relating to The Gentleman's Magazine.

Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1830-1860; 1778 to 1873
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Nichols family papers relating chiefly to The gentleman's magazine

Manuscripts of the Strozzi family

 Collection
Identifier: S77699
Abstract Collection of 17th and 18th century transcripts made for the Strozzi family of Florence of political and religious material, relating to papal diplomacy, etc., of documents dating from the 14th century through the 17th century, with the bulk dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. A note in volume 1 states that the manuscripts came from Rome, from the archives of the Strozzi house, and indicates that the series is incomplete, as may be seen from the lower series of numbers on the spines of...
Dates: 17th and 18th century
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Manuscripts of the Strozzi family

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