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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959. Papers of W. W. Greg [manuscript], 1929 November 21 and December 29.

Title: Papers of W. W. Greg [manuscript], 1929 November 21 and December 29.

Include letter, 1929 November 21, to Dr. S.A. Tannenbaum, New York City, Greg writes that since "English Literary Autographs" is being issued by private subscription only, payment must be made in advance. A receipt for three pounds, 1929 December 29, made out to Tannenbaum and signed by Greg is also included in this collection.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Howard, Edward, fl. 1669. The change of crownes a tragy-comedy [manuscript], 1667.

Title: The change of crownes a tragy-comedy [manuscript], 1667.

Several actors are named in the margins. Accompanying the volume are: letters from W.W. Greg, D. Nichol Smith and F.S. Boas to Austen-Leigh, with a few from Austen-Leigh to Boas, discussing the manuscript and its publication, 1938-1950, (2-22); a review of the edition from Notes and Queries April 1, 1950, p. 154, and R. Southern's article on the play from Theatre Notebook, vol. 4, No. 3 (April - June 1950), p. 65-68, (23-24); and a copy of F.S. Boas's edition, 1949, (25). At the end of the text is the license of the Master of the Revels, Sir Henry Herbert, April 13, 1667.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (35 leaves)

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Walter Wilson Greg papers, 1559-1959, 1905-1959

Title: Walter WilsonGreg papers 1559-1959 1905-1959

The papers containcorrespondence, printed material, writings and other papers documenting thescholarly career of Walter Wilson Greg, particularly his work on the , hisbook reviews and his periodical articles concerning the editing ofShakespeare. Bibilography of the English PrintedDrama (BEPD)

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 15; Linear Feet: 5

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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959. Letter, 1947 Aug. 26, Peterworth [England] to [Leo] Kirschbaum [Detroit?].

Title: Letter, 1947 Aug. 26, Peterworth [England] to [Leo] Kirschbaum [Detroit?].

In his paper in the "Modern Language Review" in 1946 he appears to have been influenced by Kirschbaum's "Reconsideration" published in the "Review of English Studies" in 1943; if so, it was unconscious, or he would have made an acknowledgement.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. Holograph signed.

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Crawford, Charles. Concordance to the play Sir Thomas More [manuscript], 1922-1930.

Title: Concordance to the play Sir Thomas More [manuscript], 1922-1930.

A full-scale concordance by Charles Crawford, with contexts for each word (D.b.19), made from W.W. Greg's Malone Soc. reprint (1911). With the concordance are two closely-connected volumes: (1) D.b.20, a collection of notable words and phrases from the play; (2) D.b.21, the copy of the Malone Soc. reprint of More with which Crawford worked much marked up. Laid in the latter are numerous miscellaneous notes in Crawford's hand, a number of clippings and extracts from R.E.S., and eight autograph letters of W.W. Greg to Crawford, February 1922 to January 1923 (10 leaves).

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959. Letter, 1948 Jul. 25, Peterworth [England] to [Leo] Kirschbaum [Detroit?].

Title: Letter, 1948 Jul. 25, Peterworth [England] to [Leo] Kirschbaum [Detroit?].

His Faustus is at the printer's. A study of Henry V would be of great interest.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Holograph signed.

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Brotanek, Rudolf, 1870-1944,. Autograph letter signed from Rudolf Brotanek to Walter Wilson Greg [manuscript], 1913 December 19.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Rudolf Brotanek to Walter Wilson Greg [manuscript], 1913 December 19.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959,. Autograph and typed letters signed to Sir Walter Wilson Greg from various correspondents [manuscript], 1936-1953.

Title: Autograph and typed letters signed to Sir Walter Wilson Greg from various correspondents [manuscript], 1936-1953.

(1) and (2) are typed letters signed from Joseph Q. Adams, on letterhead of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (1) is dated April 16, 1936 and (2) is dated May 11, 1936. Both letters concern a Henry Peacham manuscript of portions of Titus Andronicus and the possibility of a Collier forgery; (3) Autograph letter signed from E.K. Chambers, Eynsham, and dated May 17, 1936. Regarding letters and signs in a proof which he thinks it would be convenient for Greg to have; (4) Typed letter signed from Graham Pollard of Birrell & Garnett, London, dated 21 July 1937. Concerns an error Greg pointed out in Pollard's paper; (5) Autograph letter (incomplete) from James G. McManaway on letterhead of the Folger Shakespeare Library dated 26 March 1940. Discusses Massinger's The Picture and copies of Gosse and Lefferts; with a typescript leaf listing typographical errors in a copy of Massinger's The Picture and one leaf containing a copy of a signature of Christofer Marley, witness to the will of Katherine Benchkin, from John Bakeless's Christopher Marlowe, Howard University Press, 1942, vol. 1, p. 208, pasted on a larger leaf; (6) Typed letter signed from Giles E. Dawson, Folger Shakespeare Library, dated 7 June 1952. Concerning " a brief note to Bowers ... in which I asked his opinion of your footnote on my little paper on the printing of Troilus"; (7) Typed letter signed from James G. McManaway, Folger Shakespeare Library, dated March 30, 1953. He writes that the Oxinden MS, no. 750.1 is here and Greg may have a photostat of the list.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

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Kirschbaum, Leo, 1907-1962. Correspondence, 1942-1957.

Title: Correspondence, 1942-1957.

Correspondence chiefly concerns Kirschbaum's publication on Shakespeare and Marlowe.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

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Frank Percy Wilson Papers, 1912-1961

Title: Frank PercyWilson Papers 1912-1961

The Frank PercyWilson Papers contain correspondence, research files, and notes for articlesand projected longer works, including an edition of ; the British Academybiography of E. K. Chambers; and works on Elizabethan vocabulary and proverbs. Tabacco

ArchivalResource: 13.13 linearfeet (28 boxes)

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Percy Simpson papers, 1870-1953

Title: Percy Simpson papers 1870-1953

Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and printed material documenting aspects of the scholarly career of Percy Simpson, particularly his edition of Ben Jonson's Works (1925-52) and his professional relationships with his colleagues, especially C. H. Herford, R. W. Chapman, William A. Jackson, Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford, and Eugénie Sellers Strong.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 15; Linear Feet: ca. 5.0

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Wilson, F. P. (Frank Percy), 1889-1963. Papers of F.P. Wilson [manuscript], 1928-1962.

Title: Papers of F.P. Wilson [manuscript], 1928-1962.

Mainly newspaper cuttings and correspondence from P. Simpson and W.W. Greg concerning Jonson and this edition of his works. Like some of the notes in the volumes, these note errata. A few letters discuss Ralph Crane's transcriptions of plays, (31-34, 37-39).

ArchivalResource: 46 items.

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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959. ALS, 1940 Oct. 28, Petworth, Sussex, to James G. McManaway.

Title: ALS, 1940 Oct. 28, Petworth, Sussex, to James G. McManaway.

Greg thanks McManaway for his review of his book, The variants in the first quarto of 'King Lear, ' and comments on his other work in progress. Comments on Battle of Britain: German bombs dropped on Petworth, and destruction caused by air raids in London.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 22 cm.

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Henslowe, Philip, d. 1616. Autograph copy in the hand of W.W. Greg of pawn accounts of Philip Henslowe, 1592-1596 [manuscript], 1904.

Title: Autograph copy in the hand of W.W. Greg of pawn accounts of Philip Henslowe, 1592-1596 [manuscript], 1904.

Accounts carried on by Henslowe or else through or on behalf of other parties. See Henslowe's diary, edited by W.W. Greg.

ArchivalResource: 29 leaves.

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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959. Letter, 1936 Dec. 15, Wimbledon Common [Eng.] to [G.B.] Harrison [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1936 Dec. 15, Wimbledon Common [Eng.] to [G.B.] Harrison [n.p.].

Discusses the question of variation or substitution of words in different versions of King Lear.

ArchivalResource: [3] p. on 2 l. Holograph signed.

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Henrietta C. Bartlett papers, 1471-1961

Title: Henrietta C. Bartlett papers 1471-1961

Collection includes letters to Bartlett from various correspondents, concerned mainly with bibliographical matters, relating especially to Shakespeare and his period. Correspondents include Joseph Quincy Adams, Tucker Brooke, Beverly Chew, George Watson Cole, Harvey Cushing, John Drinkwater, John Farquhar Fulton, W. W. Greg, Geoffrey Keynes, Amy Lowell, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Julia Marlowe, William Allan Neilson, Alfred Edward Newton, Alfred William Pollard, Seymour de Ricci, Otis Skinner, Edward Hugh Sothern, Chauncey Brewster Tinker, John Dover Wilson, and the Henry E. Huntington Library. The Papers also include lecture notes on bibliographical subjects; sample pages of early books ca. 1471-1675; six boxes of 4 x 5 glass slides used in her lectures; minutes, membership lists and printed material from the Hroswitha Club in New York; and notes and newspaper clippings related to various authors, libraries, and book collecting.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 17; Other Storage Formats: Oversize portfolio; Linear Feet: 7.1

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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959,. Publius Cornelius Scipio sui victor : a play, ca. 1630.

Title: Publius Cornelius Scipio sui victor : a play, ca. 1630.

Latin play in five acts, apparently unrecorded anywhere. List of characters at end.

ArchivalResource: 30 leaves.

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Tannenbaum, Samuel Aaron, 1874?-1948. Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum papers, 1857-1943.

Title: Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum papers, 1857-1943.

Chiefly correspondence, 1905-1943, between Tannenbaum and other specialists in 16th- and 17th-century English literature, including Joseph Quincy Adams (1881-1946), Horace Howard Furness (1865-1930), W. W. Greg (1875-1959), William Bailey Kempling, W. J. Lawrence (1862-1940), Arthur Huntington Nason (1877-1944), Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant (1862-1936), Charlotte Endymion Porter (1859-1942), Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958), M. H. Spielmann (1858-1948), Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958), and Charles William Wallace (1865-1932). Letters discuss Tannenbaum's interest in Shakespeare and his works, with particular emphasis on questions of disputed authorship, on Elizabethan theater productions, and on Shakespeare's handwriting and his sexual habits. Also included are letters relating to the Shakespeare Association, the Modern Language Association of America, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Among the small number of letters not relating to English literature are those from individuals in the field of psychology, including a 1908 letter from Sigmund Freud to E. A. Brill about arrangements for Freud's trip to Clark University; two 1913 letters from Sandor Ferenczi (1873-1933); one 1912 letter from James Jackson Putnam (1846-1918); and seven letters, 1918-1919, from Ernest Jones (1879-1958) about the establishment of an English language journal on psychoanalysis. There are also a few writings by Tannenbaum on literary and medical topics and a small number of photographs.

ArchivalResource: About 375 items (1.5 linear ft.).

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Fredericus, de Venetiis, fl. 1348-1391. [Literalis expositio super Apocalypsim].

Title: [Literalis expositio super Apocalypsim]. [October 8, 1456]

ArchivalResource: 98 leaves (2 columns, 47 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 285 x 199 mm.

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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959. Letter, 1944 Oct. 5, Petworth [Eng.] to The Librarian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Title: Letter, 1944 Oct. 5, Petworth [Eng.] to The Librarian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Inquires whether the books on the enclosed list (lacking) are in the Library.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

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Hodgson, Sidney. Sidney Hodgson collection regarding Shakespeare folios and quartos [manuscript], ca. 1930-1964.

Title: Sidney Hodgson collection regarding Shakespeare folios and quartos [manuscript], ca. 1930-1964.

Collection of letters to the bookseller Sidney Hodgson from various individuals, with pamphlets and bookseller catalogs relating to Shakespeare. Includes several letters regarding bibliographical matters and the sale of nine Shakespeare quartos (1619) owned by Sir John St. Vigor Fox of Girsby Manor, Lincoln. Correspondence addressed to Hodgson includes 3 autograph letters signed from John St. Vigor Fox (1-3), 2 typescript letters from Levi Fox to Hodgson (one is a copy with notes on the wood from Shakespeare's pew) (4-5), 3 autograph letters signed from Walter Wilson Greg (6-8), 1 autograph letter signed from F.P. Wilson (9), and 1 autograph letter signed from J. Dover Wilson (10). (11) consists of notes on Shakespeare editions and a clipping comparing a pirated quarto of A midsummer night's dream (from John St. Vigor Fox's collection) to a copy of the original and authentic quarto (from the Folger collection). Additional correspondence to and from Hodgson inserted in pamphlets. Pamphlets and catalogs. Some additional items laid in several pamphlets, including correspondence in (12) and (25). The four folios of Shakespeare's plays ("a description of an exceptionally desirable set now offered for sale by Dodd, Mead & Company") with "notes on the collation & condition of the four folios of Shakespeare from the library of the late Howard Pease" and 2 typescript letters from J.D. Hughes to Hodgson (both from 1943) laid in (12); Four quarto editions of plays by Shakespeare described by Sidney Lee (Stratford-upon-Avon: printed for the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace, 1908) (13); Chatsworth library : Kemble-Devonshire collection of English plays & play-bills consisting mainly of plays, &c. prior to 1640 (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge) (14); two copies of In commemoration of the first folio tercentenary : a resetting of the preliminary matter of the First folio, with a catalogue of Shakespeariana exhibited in the hall of the Worshipful Company of Stationers (1923) (15-16); Guide to the mss. & printed books exhibited in celebration of the Tercentenary of the First Folio Shakespeare (British Museum Shakespeare exhibition, 1923) (17); A collection of early editions of Shakespeare's plays and early Shakespeariana, exhibited by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. at 11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street London, August 1924 (18); The remarkable story of the Shakespearian quartos of 1619 (printed for Hodgson, 1946) with notes on "Shakespeare & the stationers" and a clipping on Shakespeare's handwriting from The sphere, April 25, 1936 (19); Hodgson & Co. catalogs, one for "An exceedingly rare volume of nine Shakespearian quartos of 1619" (sale held Thursday, July 11th, 1946) and another for "Four folio editions of Shakespeare 1623, 1632, 1664 and 1685 (sale held Wednesday, May 12, 1948) (20-21); The Folger Shakespeare Library: a research institution dedicated to the advancement of literary and historical scholarship (published for the Trustees of Amherst College, 1951) (22); Folder referencing letters that are now Y.d.701 (1-9) and the catalogue that is now Y.d.701 (20). Contains leaflet issued by the Stationers showing "the entry of Shakespeare's First Folio registered by William Blount and Isaac Jaggard in 1623" and a second facsimile of this entry (23); The Folger Library: a decade of growth, 1950-1960 with postcard facsimiles of items thought to be in Shakespeare's hand and facsimile entries in the registers relating to Shakespeare's plays (24); Facsimiles of the Shakespeare deed and a leaf of the Sir Thomas More play in the British Museum (1964) with correspondence from 1942 concerning a First Folio Hodgson examined for Mrs. Hall of Long Wittenham Manor, Berkshire and a putative sale to the Folger Shakespeare Library (25); 2 pamphlets for the Shakespeare's England exhibition held in London in 1964 and 1 for Shakespeare's birthplace by Levi Fox (26); Shakespeare in the public records (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, c1964) (27).

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

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Papers of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, 1882-1950

Title: Papers of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers 1882-1950

ArchivalResource: 18 shelfmarks

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James Marshall Osborn correspondence, 1928-1977

Title: James Marshall Osborn correspondence 1928-1977

The correspondence concerns the scholarly and collecting interests of James Marshall Osborn. The collection documents his activities as a rare book and manuscript collector, his research in early modern and eighteenth century English literature, and his authorship of several volumes of literary history. Much of the correspondence is with other literary scholars, including F. W. Bateson, James Lowry Clifford, Wilmarth S. Lewis, Maynard Mack. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, and René Wellek.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 81; Linear Feet: 32.25

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Correspondence, etc. of Sir Walter Wilson Greg. England, 1899-1931?, February 1899

Title: Correspondence, etc. of Sir Walter Wilson Greg. England, 1899-1931? February 1899

Papers of Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959) who served as librarian of Trinity College Library, Cambridge 1907-1913, including several letters from other holders of that post (2 letters received from Robert Sinker (1838-1913) in 1899 and 1 letter received in 1931 from H.M. (Herbert Mayow) Adams) and some facsimile photographs of manuscripts, etc. This material was found laid in a copy of Robert Sinker's history of Trinity College Library (1891).

ArchivalResource: 2 folders

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Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613. Observations upon the state of the 17 provinces and of France [manuscript], ca. 1630?

Title: Observations upon the state of the 17 provinces and of France [manuscript], ca. 1630?

Also included with Overbury's observations, on p. 21: A short view of the life of Henry the Third, being the beginning of Sir R.B. Cotton's work, published in 1627 (STC 5864); and breaks off in the midst of a sentence, at p. 24. Tipped in at end, A letter to a friend dissuading him from his attempt to marry a nun, possibly by Cleveland.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Papers of Sir Walter Greg, [ca. 1940]-1955

Title: Papers of Sir Walter Greg [ca. 1940]-1955

ArchivalResource: 6 shelfmarks

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Harrison, G. B. (George Bagshawe), 1894-1991. Correspondence, with writers and scholars, 1913-1939.

Title: Correspondence, with writers and scholars, 1913-1939.

The correspondence, chiefly related to Shakespearean scholarship and the activities of the Shakespeare Association of which he was honorary secretary, includes 26 letter from H.G. Granville-Barker, and a printed letter of application for membership in the Shakespeare Association, completed in holograph and signed, from G.B. Shaw.

ArchivalResource: 38 items. Holographs signed.

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Crawford, Charles. Notes and papers on Two Italian Gentlement, 1910.

Title: Notes and papers on Two Italian Gentlement, 1910.

Crawford's conclusion that George Chapman was author, or translator, of the work was announced in Malone Society, Collections Part III (1909) p. 222 ff.

ArchivalResource: 7 items. Holographs.

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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959,. Autograph letters signed from W.W. Greg, London and Sussex, to various people [manuscript], 1907-1945.

Title: Autograph letters signed from W.W. Greg, London and Sussex, to various people [manuscript], 1907-1945.

Correspondents: [Joseph Quincy] Adams, [Frederick Gard] Fleay, [Sir Edmund William] Gosse and [Thomas James] Wise. Letter (1) to Adams compares readings in a photostat copy of A midsummer night's dream [at the Folger Library] to those in other copies. Letter (6) to Fleay refers to Collier and the Henslowe diary, and it is followed by Fleay's draft reply. Letters (7-8) to Gosse and Wise discuss the Massinger quartos.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

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Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959,. Autograph letter signed from W.W. Greg, Sussex, to Joseph Quincy Adams [manuscript], 1940 March 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed from W.W. Greg, Sussex, to Joseph Quincy Adams [manuscript], 1940 March 14.

The first volume of Greg's A bibliography of the English printed drama to the restoration is out and he would be happy to send an extra copy to the library in recognition of all the help he has received from Adams and his staff. Sent from Jolly[coli?], Pagham, near Bognor, Sussex.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 21 x 13 cm.

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McManaway, James Gilmer, 1899-1980,. Annotations by James McManaway on proof sheets of W.W. Greg's A bibliography of the English printed drama [manuscript], 1938.

Title: Annotations by James McManaway on proof sheets of W.W. Greg's A bibliography of the English printed drama [manuscript], 1938.

Proof sheets for numbers 251-349 and 8 additional, unnumbered entries. Annotated to reflect particulars of copies in the Folger collection. Several pages bear the stamp "University Press Oxford, 18 Mar. 1938, proof." Pencil annotation on leaf 1 reads "Ret. 3-29-38."

ArchivalResource: 76 leaves ; 40 cm.

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Smedley, William Thomas, 1851-. Letter to Isaac Hull Platt, 1910.

Title: Letter to Isaac Hull Platt, 1910.

Concerns the Baconian cipher theory of Shakespeare's plays. Encloses a copy of a letter to Smedley from W. W. Greg, dated 17 June 1910.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (7 leaves).

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Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafāʼ, 11th cent. [Dictes and sayings of the philosophers].