Collection of correspondence concerning the alleged Shakespeare signature in a copy of Ioannis Michaelis Bruti Fiorentinae Historiae [manuscript], 1887-1959.

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Collection of correspondence concerning the alleged Shakespeare signature in a copy of Ioannis Michaelis Bruti Fiorentinae Historiae [manuscript], 1887-1959.

Letters signed and unsigned from Benjamin Braman, Appleton Morgan, E. H. Dowden, Althorp, Frank Marcham, Lucy Drucker, Oliver R. Barrett, Arthur Swann, Roger Barrett and others. The copy of Ioannis Michaelis Bruti Fiorentinae Historiae, 1562, belonged to the earl of Sunderland, M.H.T. Luscombe, C.F. Gunther, Oliver Barrett and Roger Barrett. Also includes the American Antiquarian, June 1885, several newspaper clippings and photographs.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7441073

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950

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Collector. From the description of Oliver R. Barrett collection regarding sale of lands by American Indians, 1638-1769. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456077 Oliver Roger Barrett (1873-1950), lawyer, author, and collector of Chicago, Ill. From the description of Oliver R. Barrett papers, 1925-1929 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 46399346 Epithet: of Cooke, Sullivan and Ricks, Chicago British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Pe...

Braman, Benjamin, fl. 1887

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Drucker, Lucy

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Appears to have worked at the Public Records Office. Lived at 118a Alexandra Road, London N.W.8. From the description of Correspondence to Albert Croll Baugh, 1940. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 229166430 ...

Barrett, Roger W.

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Swann, Arthur, 1875-1959

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Bookseller and auctioneer, Arthur Swann worked in Liverpool and Leeds before coming to New York City and joining the Anderson Auction Company, where he prepared catalogs for the book auctions. From 1913 he was associated with the American Art Association (AAA) and organized its rare book and manuscript department. Swann left AAA in 1927, and in 1929 it merged with Anderson Galleries. He served briefly as a vice-president of the Brick Row Book Shop (then in New York City) and from 1933 was vice-p...

Marcham, Frank

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Epithet: of Add Ch 66712 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001128.0x000331 Epithet: of Add Ch 70819 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001128.0x000332 Epithet: of Add MS 45880 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001128.0x000333 ...

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

Morgan, Appleton, 1845-1928

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Appleton Morgan was president of the Shakespeare Society of New York. From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1888-1908. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155885216 ...

Luscombe, Matthew

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Spencer, Charles Robert Spencer, Earl, 1857-1922

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Dowden, Eliza H., 1866-

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Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722

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David Edwin Pingree, Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University, was one of America's foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity. He attended Harvard University, where he earned his doctorate in 1960 with a dissertation on the transmission of Hellenistic astrology to India. A master of the "dead" languages, Pingree was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, he was a member of the Society of Fellows ...

Gunther, Charles Frederick, 1837-1920

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C. F. Gunther, a native of Germany, was a wealthy Chicago confectioner and a collector of artifacts and manuscripts. From the description of Letter, January 12, 1912. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 62881469 Gunther, a native of Germany, was a wealthy Chicago confectioner and a collector of artifacts and manuscripts. From the description of Papers, 1886-1904. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 647976992 ...

Bruto, Giovanni Michele, approximately 1515-1594

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