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

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

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(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.

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

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Dawson, Giles E., 1903-1994

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Giles E. Dawson was a 20th-century Shakespearean scholar, paleographer, and librarian. He spent almost his entire career at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. Dawson graduated from Oberlin College in 1925 and went on to earn an MA and PhD from Cornell University. He served on the faculty of the University of North Dakota and the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland before joining the Folger Shakespeare Library as a reference librarian in 1932. Dawson served in the U. S....

McManaway, James Gilmer, 1899-1980

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The Folger Shakespeare Library is a world-renowned center for scholarship, learning, culture, and the arts that houses the world’s largest Shakespeare collection. The Folger collections include rare printed books, manuscripts, works of art, audiovisual materials, and modern scholarship. These materials extend beyond Shakespeare to include a wide range of disciplines – history and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts – from the early modern period (1500–1750). An internationall...

Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever), 1866-1954

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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. ...

Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640

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Oxinden, Henry, 1609-1670

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Pollard, Graham

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Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883

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Greg, W.W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959

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Walter Wilson Greg, bibliographer and literary scholar, was born in Wimbledon Common, England, on July 9, 1875. He was the only child of the idustrialist and author William Rathbone Greg and Julia Wilson Greg, daughter of James Wilson, the founder of The Economist . Greg's family hoped that he would assume the editorship of the newspaper someday, and he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he received a "pass" degree in 1897. During...