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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: February 2020
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: February 2020

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Welcome back to our monthly Crocodile Mystery! For those of you (ahem) mystified by this designation for our reoccurring series of posts, take a look at the post where it was named! For the question this month, we’re returning to…

Ben Greet: “Thank God for Henry Clay Folger”
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Ben Greet: “Thank God for Henry Clay Folger”

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Stephen H. Grant

A guest post by Stephen Grant First, a most Happy New Year to you all! I’m sure that 2020 is the beginning of a big decade for the Folger!! And I can’t wait until the Folger Centennial in 2032!!! For…

Sizing Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Sizing Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Faith Acker

A guest post by Faith Acker I still remember the first rare book I handled in a library. It was Thomas Caldecott’s copy of the Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before imprinted (Thomas Thorpe, 1609) a beautiful quarto that Caldecott presented to…

The Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellany
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The Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellany

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Betty Schellenberg

A guest post by Betty Schellenberg Recently I’ve been exploring the very active literary lives of eighteenth-century lower gentry and middle-class individuals. Many of these socially obscure people not only composed and exchanged verse in manuscript form within their own…

Happy New Year (by one calendar anyway)
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Happy New Year (by one calendar anyway)

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We’re well aware that around the world, and across time, there are many calendars (boy howdy do we know that), but if the calendar that you use is about to change over to January 1, 2020, we wish you a…

December Greetings
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December Greetings

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As we pass the winter solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, and the days grow longer at last (apologies to our readers in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s all down hill for you), we wanted to take a moment and wish…

The Wandering Soul: On Meeting Theadora Wilkin
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The Wandering Soul: On Meeting Theadora Wilkin

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William Cook Miller

A guest post by William Cook Miller While at the Folger Shakespeare Library over the summer, I came across a manuscript so exciting, so intriguing, so multifaceted, that I spent a full week combing through it, photographing it, trying to…

No Standard Oil Company? No Shakespeare Collection!
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No Standard Oil Company? No Shakespeare Collection!

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Stephen H. Grant

A Guest Post by Stephen Grant A decade ago when I was determining angles to consider in approaching Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger, some readers—perhaps at 3 pm Folger tea—recommended I write only on the Folgers…

Let there be light! Kliegl lights on the New York Stage
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Let there be light! Kliegl lights on the New York Stage

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Abbie Weinberg

Once again, I seem to have underestimated the level of esoteric knowledge held by our readers. Y’all are delightful (and I’m guessing have worked technical theater at some point…). Yes, yes, indeed. The Crocodile Mystery posted last week does seem…

“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: December 2019
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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: December 2019

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Welcome to the final Crocodile Mystery of 2019! As we close out the year (and the decade!), we invite you to look at the image below and tell us, if you can, what on earth it’s talking about?! Leave your…

Stuff in Books: a conundrum
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Stuff in Books: a conundrum

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Elizabeth DeBold

When we think of book history, most of us focus on the creation, dissemination, and reception of texts. But as many scholars have begun to discuss in the last few years, books and manuscripts ended up being used in many…

Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part II
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Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part II

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Stephen H. Grant

A Guest Post by Stephen Grant Fig. 1 Picturesque Truckee River View on S.P.R.R. Collators, we pick up from the series of picture postcards Henry Folger sent to his wife Emily in Brooklyn during his Standard Oil Company business trips…

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