"Thank you for sending this copy of your blog about the connection between the Folgers and Captain Robinson. I enjoyed reading it, and their interaction is a delightful one, clearly appreciated by...
The Bard Will was born on the same day he died—and no one knows for sure on what day he was born. No birth certificate has been found for William Shakespeare. The plaque underneath is a baptism...
The next three bas-reliefs along the Folger’s north wall are Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and King Lear.
They Don’t Know How to Spell, No Nude!
On Aug. 2, 1929 the Folgers made known the plays and the scenes from Shakespeare’s plays they had selected for the bas-reliefs.
Henry Folger was unlike his executive colleagues at the Standard Oil Company in New York who vacationed in Florida and California or cruised the Mediterranean. He took his wife and collecting...
In 1889, 10 years after he graduated from Amherst College and 84 years before I did, Henry Folger walked “with fear and trepidation” into the foremost book auction house in America, Bangs and Co. on...
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...
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