Autograph letters and postcards signed from Justin Winsor, Boston, to J.P. Norris [manuscript], 1874-1879.

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Autograph letters and postcards signed from Justin Winsor, Boston, to J.P. Norris [manuscript], 1874-1879.

The letters mainly discuss first folios, J.O. Halliwell-Phillips, and the Droeshout portrait. (17) is written on the back of a facsimile of a description of The Facsmilis[t?], "a quarterly journal of rarities in bibliography, archaeology, paleography, cartography, and in every department of learning."

32 items ; 80 x 130 mm to 250 x 200 mm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7482796

Folger Shakespeare Library

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