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First Folio, the book that gave us Shakespeare: On tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2016
UPDATED with a NEWS FLASHJohns Hopkins University Press released Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger on the Ides of March in 2014, the 450th anniversary of the Bard’s birth. ...
Picture Postcards of France I
When I was a French major at Amherst College in the early 1960s, I had NO IDEA a half-century later I would be double billed as Biographer/Deltiologist. I wrote the first biography or life story of...
Emily Jordan Folger’s Deltiological Profile
UPDATED with a NEWS FLASHIt would be more than a stretch to claim that Henry and Emily Folger were deltiologists, that is, as Collins Dictionary reminds us, persons who collect and study picture...
Shakespeare Collector Henry Clay Folger and President Calvin Coolidge
Shakespeare collector Henry Clay Folger and President Calvin Coolidge were 6th cousins, once removed; surely, they never knew it. They both graduated with a B. A. degree from Amherst College in...
Salvadoran Postcards & Libraries
Where were you for Y2K, at the change of millennia from 1999 to 2000? I was in El Salvador as deputy leader of the economic growth strategic team at USAID/San Salvador in El Salvador, Central...
Ben Greet: “Thank God for Henry Clay Folger”
For the first 2020 post in the series “Postcards in the Folger Archives,” dear Collators, we’ll try something new. We’ll pick a friend of both Henry and Emily Folger and follow a timeline. This...
Folgers and Nantucket in an Anniversary Year
The first Folgers to immigrate to the New World came from the village of Diss, 20 miles southwest of the town of Norwich, in East Anglia, England. Part of the Great Puritan Migration, they crossed...
No Standard Oil Company? No Shakespeare Collection!
"Stephen, thanks for this fascinating research. The images are particularly evocative of that time and place. As you well know, John D. Rockefeller sent missions to potential acquisitions or...
Postcards in the Folger Archives: The 1879 Hyde Prize in Oratory at Amherst College
"I’m a longtime fan of both the literary treasures within the Folger, and its stunning Greco Deco exterior architecture. A friend alerted me to Stephen Grant’s scholarly yet utterly charming tale of...
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