While on business trips out west in 1910, Standard Oil Co. executive Henry Folger sends postcards to his wife. The messages are hilarious!
Collecting Articles
Henry Folger never knew of the First Folio that surfaced in France this year
In forty years of book collecting, Henry Clay Folger managed to collect eighty-two of the 800 or so First Folios containing thirty-six Shakespeare plays compiled by two of the Bard’s actor friends,...
Postcards of Egypt
The news came from Washington DC in a 1982 State Department cable signed SHULTZ: “STEPHEN GRANT IS ASSIGNED TO CAIRO AS EDUCATION OFFICER.”
Happy Birthday, Henry Clay Folger!
Here are three things to remember about Henry Clay Folger on his 164th birthday, June 18, 2021.
Shall we take the ferry to Nantucket to visit the Folger Shakespeare Library?
Reading the Washington Post with horror! Deciding where to build the Folger Shakespeare Library. WIN a FREE book!
The Omni-Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia
George Washington visited Hot Springs, Va. on horseback in 1755 on an inspection tour of forts as protection against Indian attacks. The Homestead spa and resort was founded in 1766, a decade before...
Postcards of the Folger:
Macbeth, Ivlivs Caesar, King Lear
The next three bas-reliefs along the Folger’s north wall are Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and King Lear.
San Salvador’s National Palace in El Salvador:
The Power of Postcards
The National Palace was the largest and most elegant structure in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, as postcards attest.
Picture Postcards of France III
During Covid, I find myself producing deltiological memoirs. (Deltiology is the study of postcards.) I hope you find the posts interesting and informative.
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