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Letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Scrapboxes of J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps

 Collection
Identifier: H35745
Abstract

Intended for inclusion in J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps' Shakespeareana scrapbook series (Folger MS W.b.201-256) mainly pertaining to Shakespeare's life, residences, friends, family, and literary predecessors. The scraps include: letters, printed book fragments, notes, clippings, prints, copies of accounts, maps, and photographs.

Dates: 19th century

Letters of Charles Kean

 Collection
Identifier: K43343
Abstract

Letters collected from various sources. Includes autograph letters signed or initialed by Charles Kean. Topics of these letters include Kean's opinions on Shakespeare, acting theory, and theater management, as well as more personal matters such as his engagement and marriage to Ellen Kean and comparisons of his own success as an actor to his father's success.

Dates: 1828-1866

Leo, Friedrich August. Letters mostly to him from various people

 Collection
Identifier: L46586
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...
Dates: 1852-1899

Papers of John Cuming Walters relating to Shakespeare

 Collection
Identifier: W35564
Abstract

Autograph letters, manuscript and printed essays, newspaper and magazine clippings, scrapbooks, and printed programs, all pertaining to John Cuming Walters' interests in Shakespeare and involvement in the cultural community in Northwest England.

Dates: ca. 1898-1932