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FAST FACTS about our FAST ACCS (early modern manuscript edition)
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FAST FACTS about our FAST ACCS (early modern manuscript edition)

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Heather Wolfe

Curator of Manuscript, Heather Wolfe, shows off some of the recent manuscript acquisitions.

My True Meaning: emotions in seventeenth-century wills
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My True Meaning: emotions in seventeenth-century wills

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Elizabeth DeBold

Anyone who has read early modern wills, whether in an attempt to confirm the names of family members or out of interest in material history, knows that they are full of emotion. Dying men and women describe their family members…

Romeo and...
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Romeo and...

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Elizabeth DeBold

Thanks for our many eagle-eyed readers and your attention to this month’s Crocodile Post. As several folks guessed, this is a French parody of Romeo and Juliet called Roméo et Paquette, published in 1773. This item is a new acquisition, purchased in…

Paper Trades
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Paper Trades

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Thank you for your insightful comments on our Crocodile Mystery, which I enjoyed reading as usual. My heartfelt thanks also to Andrew Hare, Supervisory East Asian Painting Conservator, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National…

New Acquisition: Photographs of an early 20th-century production of Hamlet in Japan
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New Acquisition: Photographs of an early 20th-century production of Hamlet in Japan

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Elizabeth DeBold

Welcome to a new regular series here on The Collation! Curatorial staff will be writing short pieces focusing on new acquisitions, hopefully giving our readers a glimpse into how we’re building our collections. Today, I’m excited to share a small…

Announcing the Earle Hyman Collection
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Announcing the Earle Hyman Collection

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Elizabeth DeBold

Earle Hyman as the Prince of Morocco in a 1953 production of Merchant of Venice Earlier this year, the Folger Shakespeare Library was privileged to receive the Earle Hyman Collection, including many of the actor’s personal papers, photographs, and theatrical…

A "lost" drawing by Ellen Terry
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A "lost" drawing by Ellen Terry

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Erin Blake

Is it possible to lose something you never had? The other day I managed to “lose” a 1905 sketch of a theater interior by actress Ellen Terry (1847-1928). I had caught a glimpse of it when sorting through a small…

Imagining an 18th century Jane Doe
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Imagining an 18th century Jane Doe

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Heather Wolfe

A fake woman with fake initials and a fake seal? What is going on with these early 18th century affidavits? Curator of Manuscripts Heather Wolfe explores burials, bureaucracy, and “ritualized compliance” in this post about two recent acquisitions.

A New Acquisition: from the workshop of the Naval Binder?
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A New Acquisition: from the workshop of the Naval Binder?

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Elizabeth DeBold

But upon the table—oh joy! the tailor gave a shout—there, where he had left plain cuttings of silk—there lay the most beautifullest coat and embroidered satin waistcoat that ever were worn by a Mayor of Gloucester. There were roses and pansies…

New Vault Material Walks Into a Library...
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New Vault Material Walks Into a Library...

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Erin Blake

New staff members (and researchers!) are sometimes surprised to find that on-order and newly received collection materials show up in Hamnet searches. Many special collections libraries keep that information staff-only until the material has arrived, been processed, and sent to the…

Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 3: the manuscripts
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Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 3: the manuscripts

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Elizabeth DeBold Heather Wolfe

In addition to the printed books and embroidered bindings described in last week’s post, the Folger also acquired 26 early modern manuscripts at the Robert S. Pirie sale at Sotheby’s (New York) in early December 2015. They should be arriving…

Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 2: the printed material
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Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 2: the printed material

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

The Folger Shakespeare Library acquired 45 lots, 19 of them printed books, at the auction sale of the Pirie collection that took place on December 2–4, 2015, at Sotheby’s, New York (we’ve also put up the complete list of our…

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