Autograph letter signed from W.J. (William John) Lawrence, Dublin, Irish Free State, to Dr. Adams [Joseph Quincy Adams] [manuscript], 1925 May 7.

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Autograph letter signed from W.J. (William John) Lawrence, Dublin, Irish Free State, to Dr. Adams [Joseph Quincy Adams] [manuscript], 1925 May 7.

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Discusses with Adams an invitation issued to him by J.L. Lowes [John Livingston Lowes] to go to Harvard for the first half of the next academic year and give two courses on the (entire) seventeenth-century theatre. He also mentions William Archer's brother, who has sent to Lawrence for examination a big bundle of his dead friend's [William Archer] Elizabethan memoranda and cuttings with the view of determining the things of value and what should be destroyed.

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Adams, J. Q. (Joseph Quincy), 1881-1946

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Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945

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Lowes was an American scholar of English literature, especially the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. At the time of these letters he was professor at Harvard University. Grace Hazard Conkling was a professor of English at Smith College (1914-1947) and the author of many books of poetry. From the description of [Letters to Mrs. Conkling, 1920-1922] / John L. Lowes. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259487545 Lowes received a doctorate from Harvard in 1903 and taught Engl...

Archer, William, 1856-1924

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Scottish dramatic critic and playright, and a close friend of George Bernard Shaw. From the description of ALS, 1893 November 24, 40, Queen Square, W.C., [London], to Mrs. Charrington. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936001 English journalist and writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 26 Gordon Square, W.C., [London], to Robert Browning, 1888 June 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125331 William Archer was a Sco...

Lawrence, William J. (William John), 1862-1940

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