Abbreviations
AC |
Amherst College |
ASC |
Archives and Special Collections |
B |
box |
BB |
black box |
BDE |
Brooklyn Daily Eagle |
CMP |
Charles M. Pratt |
CR |
Congressional Record |
ECF |
Eliza Clark Folger |
EJF |
Emily Jordan Folger |
F |
file |
FC |
Folger Collection |
FCF |
Folger Case Files, including bookseller correspondence |
FLN |
Folger Library News |
FSL |
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC |
GPO |
Government Printing Office |
HCF |
Henry Clay Folger |
HEH |
Henry E. Huntington |
HEHL |
Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California |
HHF |
Horace Howard Furness |
JDR |
John D. Rockefeller |
LC |
Library of Congress |
MAJ |
Mary Augusta Jordan |
MD |
Manuscript Division |
MS |
manuscript |
NHA |
Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts |
NYT |
New York Times |
RAC |
Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York |
RFA |
Rockefeller Family Archives |
RG |
record group |
RM&L |
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia |
SC |
Smith College |
Standard Oil Company Archive, Austin, Texas |
|
STC |
Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland |
UPenn RBML |
University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Philadelphia |
VC |
Vassar College |
WSJ |
Wall Street Journal |
WP |
Washington Post |
Prologue
1. FSL, “Strategic Plan for the Folger Shakespeare Library,” June 7, 2013, p. 1. Also see www.folger.edu.
2. FSL FC B62 F “Mr. Folger” - James Aswell, Standard Star (New Rochelle, NY), July 6, 1931.
3. FSL FC B15 F National Shakespeare Federation - HCF to Charles Craigie, April 12, 1928.
4. Newsweek, February 9, 1948.
5. FSL FC B23 F Shakespeare - HCF to Archibald Flower, June 3, 1926.
6. Wolf & Fleming, 122.
Chapter 1 • Well Read in Poetry, Fair in Knowledge
1. James, 400.
2. “Worst American CEOs of All Time,” CNBC.com, April 30, 2009, www.cnbc.com/id/30502091; “most hated man in America,” from H. Smith, “Change Arrives on Tiptoes at the Frick Mansion,” NYT, August 28, 2008.
3. FSL FC B27 - Owen Smith to Edgar Rogers, August 5, 1935.
4. Hellman, 16.
5. Folger, n.p.
6. HCF Sr. will, Brooklyn Surrogates Court, Brooklyn, NY.
7. Folger, n.p.
8. FSL FC B25 - HCF Sr. to EJF June 13, 1889.
9. Interview with Emily Smith Carter, September 17, 2010.
10. FSL FC B21 - HCF to Henrietta A. Folger, December 1, 1912.
11. FSL FC B28 - Public School no. 15, Brooklyn.
12. FSL FC B37 - EJF Meridian Club Lecture, 1933.
13. FSL FC B30 - HCF tribute to Charles Pratt, 1903.
14. FSL FC B28 - Adelphi Academy.
15. FSL FC B21 - HCF to ECF, September 22, 1875.
16. FSL FC B21 - HCF, freshman letters home.
17. VC Archives - F Biographical file for Folger, Emily (Jordan).
18. FSL FC B37 - President Lincoln and a Little Girl.
19. FSL FC B32 - letters to James W. Fawcett.
20. FSL FC B36 - EJF scrapbook clipping, vol. 2.
21. FSL FC B34 - EJF scrapbook.
22. FSL FC B32 - HCF scrapbook.
23. FSL FC B29 - HCF essays, 1878.
24. Plimpton, 38.
25. FSL FC B29 - HCF essays, 1878.
26. FSL FCF - HCF to George D. Smith, January 4, 1906.
27. Rosenbach, “HCF as a Collector,” 105.
28. FSL FCF - HCF to John Howell, November 23, 1921.
29. FSL FC B38 - EJF’s book, Places I have visited.
30. FSL FC B38 - EJF’s address book.
31. FSL FC B21 - EJF to HCF poem.
32. FSL FC B21 - HHF to EJF, April 17, 1911.
33. FSL FC B22 - CMP to HCF, September 21, 1919.
34. FSL FC BB13 - Interview with Edward J. Dimock, November 1980.
35. FSL FC B32 - Character study, Fawcett, 1932.
36. FSL FC B30 - HCF’s will, December 31, 1907.
Chapter 2 • Thou Lovest Me, My Name Is Will
1. Vaughan & Vaughan, Shakespeare in American Life, 15.
2. Ibid., 14.
3. Bristol, Shakespeare’s America, 3.
4. Emerson, Representative Men, 201.
5. FSL FC B37 - Meridian Club Lecture, 1933.
6. This Collected Works volume is in the FSL collection.
7. FSL FC B37 - Meridian Club Lecture, 1933.
8. FSL FC B39 - HCF to Harris, November 11, 1909.
9. FSL FC B37 - EJF Meridian Club Lecture, 1933.
10. Ibid.
11. Emerson, “Solution,” in Collected, 412.
12. FSL FC B30 - F Ariel to Caliban.
13. FSL FC B24 - HCF to Ellen Terry, February 21, 1911.
14. FSL FC B27 - J. M. Terry to EJF, December 17, 1914.
15. New York Herald, April 26, 1916.
16. FSL FC B37 - EJF Meridian Club Lecture, 1933.
17. Kaplan, Lincoln, chap. 2.
18. FSL FC B24 - HCF to Sothern, n.d. [ca. 1910].
19. FSL FC B38 - Plays I have seen: Antony & Cleopatra, November 15, 1909.
20. Vaughan & Vaughan, Shakespeare in American Life, 172.
21. FSL FC B38 - Plays I have seen, 146.
22. FSL FC - Taped interview with Edward J. Dimock by O. B. Hardison, Folger Shakespeare Library director, February 24, 1970.
23. FSL FC B32 - Character study, Fawcett, 1932.
24. Blayney, 42.
25. FSL FC B35 - HHF to EJF, June 12, 1896.
26. FSL FC B44 - Commonplace book.
27. FSL FC B31 - HCF speech on receiving LLD, 1914.
28. FSL FC B37 - EJF Meridian Club Lecture, 1933.
29. FSL FC B30 - F Ariel to Caliban.
30. The caption “Known as Ye Peacocke Inn in Shakespeare’s time, 1613” is written under the label “Golden Lion Hotel” on a picture postcard of the hotel mailed from Stratford-upon-Avon in 1905.
31. FSL FC B23 - HCF to Robinson, January 13, 1913.
32. FSL FC B16 - Mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon to HCF, June 1, 1909.
33. FSL FC B23 - HCF to Flower, May 10, 1929.
34. The New Variorum Shakespeare continues today under the sponsorship of the Modern Language Association of America.
35. Reiss, 68.
36. FSL FC B39 - HCF to Harris, November 6, 1909.
37. FSL FC B62 - Amherst Student, October 10, 1929.
38. FSL FC B22 - Plimpton to HCF, March 11, 1908.
39. FSL FC B32 - Cret to Fawcett, October 13, 1932.
Chapter 3 • Wise, Circumspect, and Trusted
1. “Dynamite Bomb for J. D. Archbold,” NYT, November 22, 1915.
2. Whicher, 8.
3. Hidy & Hidy, 59.
4. RAC RFA, RG1 letterbooks, vol. 189, 297 - JDR to HCF, September 21, 1885.
5. RAC RFA, RG1 business correspondence, B56, F418 - HCF memo no. 4645 to Ambrose McGregor, February 6, 1893.
6. Hidy & Hidy, 658.
7. FSL FC B37 - EJF Meridian Club Lecture, 1933.
8. Whiteshot, 709.
9. FSL FC B25 - Fales to EJF, September 20, 1932.
10. RAC RFA, RG1 letterbooks, vol. 226, 77 - JDR to HCF, February 26, 1909.
11. FSL FC B37 - EJF Meridian Club Lecture, 1933.
12. H. A., “By-the Bye in Wall St.,” WSJ, October 16, 1931.
13. SOCA, F Folger, H. C., 1911–1985 - Harry B. Tower, “Briefs on HCF Jr.”
14. FSL FC B32 - Teagle to Fawcett, n.d.
15. Tarbell, 12.
16. RAC RFA, RG1 letterbooks, vol. 226, 324 - JDR to HCF, April 22, 1909.
17. FSL FC B41 - McClure’s; Atwood, 409.
18. FSL FC B22 - CMP to HCF, April 6, 1909.
19. RAC RFA, RG1 letterbooks, vol. 226, 270 - JDR to HCF, April 6, 1909.
20. Atwood, 413.
21. RAC RFA, RG1 letterbooks, vol. 225, 502 - JDR to HCF, February 11, 1909.
22. RAC RFA, RG1 letterbooks, vol. 226, 32 - JDR to HCF, February 18, 1909.
23. RAC RFA, RG1, series L - letterbooks, Code Index.
24. See Singer, Broken Trusts; Wallace, Nine Lives; Duncan, An Eye Opener; and Gray, Rule of Reason.
25. U.S.A., petitioner, v. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey et al., defendants, records and briefs for 221 U.S.1(1911), 7:101–21.
26. All conversions to 2011 dollars have been made using “Measuring Worth,” www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/.
27. U.S.A., petitioner, v. Standard Oil, 1:290.
28. Ibid., 7:3316.
29. As stated in the brief for the government in the breakup case (quoted in Gray, Rule of Reason, 43): “It is inconceivable that the Standard Oil Company should make a bona fide sale of [the Corsicana Refinery Company], which was paying large profits, for a price practically little over $400,000, selling it in this informal method to two of its principal officials, and taking pay in a verbal obligation … Seller and purchaser alike knew the plant … would earn much more than enough to pay for it … It is asking much of the credibility of any court to believe that it was [a bona fide transaction]. We believe that the court is justified in holding that this sale was a fraud and that the Standard Oil Company controls the Corsicana Refinery Company at the present time, as it admittedly did up to … 1906.”
30. “Texas Refineries in Deal,” NYT, October 16, 1912.
31. See, generally, “Ousted Oil Company Back to Old Hands, “ NYT, October 4, 1912; “Magnolia Oil Bonds Go to Rockefeller,” NYT, October 5, 1912; and RAC, RFA, RG1, letterbooks, vol. 160, 428 - JDR to HCF, July 28, 1913.
32. RAC RFA, RG1 letterbooks - JDR to HCF July 28, 1913.
33. FSL FC B5 - Cancelled checks.
34. September 17, 1908, incident recounted in Chernow, Titan, 549.
35. Howarth, One Hundred Twenty-Five Years, 58.
36. Testimony before the subcommittee byHCF on December 22, 1922, in U.S. Senate Committee on Manufactures, 1–70.
37. Strait Settlements referred to British territories in southeast Asia; the Levant referred to the crossroads of western Asia, the eastern Mediterranean, and northeast Africa.
38. CR, 69th Congress, 1st session, vol. 67, part 9, Washington, DC, May–June 1926, 10097.
39. Ibid., part 10, Washington, DC, June 1926, 10572.
40. FSL FC B 41 - Standard Oil recognition at HCF retirement.
41. BDE, August 29, 1935.
42. FSL FC B32 - George W. McKnight to Fawcett, n.d.
43. FSL FC B32 - Fales to Fawcett, n.d.
44. See Schoenbaum’s standard biography of the dramatist, William Shakespeare(1977).
45. Built by the Union Iron Works Company, a Bethlehem Steel Company affiliate, and belonging to a former Standard Oil Company of New Jersey subsidiary, the Atlantic Refining Company of Philadelphia, the SS H. C. Folger weighed over 10,000 tons. It transported 100,000 barrels of different types of petroleum products distributed in eighteen storage tanks. The Folger’s maiden voyage took it from its home port of Philadelphia to London, arriving on February 2, 1917, one day after Germany announced resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare. German submarines often mined the entrances to British harbors. At one time, a torpedo missed the Folger by fifty yards. The Folger survived dozens of wartime crossings, mainly to British and French ports. Apart from one wartime newspaper article that Emily Folger filed away, no evidence exists that the Folgers particularly followed the career of the eponymous oil tanker.
Chapter 4 • Leading on to Fortune
1. FSL FC B22 F Palmer - Edmund Horace Fellowes, “The Ways of a Millionnaire,” n.d. [1928], clipping from Liverpool newspaper.
2. FSL FC B62 F “Mr. Folger” - James Aswell, writing in the Standard Star (New Rochelle, NY), July 6, 1931.
3. All conversions to 2011 dollars have been made using “Measuring Worth,” www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/.
4. Hidy & Hidy, 615.
5. U.S.A., petitioner, v. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey et al., defendants, records and briefs for 221 U.S.1(1911), 18:29.
6. Hidy & Hidy, 633, table 50.
7. Gibb & Knowlton, 37, table 5.
8. “Hear Magnolia Oil Figures,” NYT, January 6, 1923, 23.
9. “Pays Big Stock Dividend,” NYT, December 19, 1920.
10. “Standard Oil of N.Y. Gets Magnolia Stock,” NYT, February 2, 1918, 15.
11. RAC RFA RG1 - HCF to JDR, January 25, 1917.
12. RAC RFA RG1 (JDR Papers) - JDR to E. V. Cary, April 25, 1917.
13. RAC RFA RG1 - JDR to Bertram Cutler, February 4, 1919.
Chapter 5 • The Hunt Is Up, the Fields Are Fragrant
1. FSL FC B33 - HCF will, March 10, 1927.
2. FSL FC BB9 - Slade remarks reported in “Shakespeare Library Dedication Saturday,” Worcester, MA, April 17, 1932.
3. Garrick may have been more faithful to the Shakespeare text than his predecessors, but he was not above making changes and even rewriting entire plays (see, e.g., his adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew and The Winter’s Tale).
4. FSL FC B22 - HCF to Robert Bateman, December 12, 1916.
5. Rosenbach, “HCF as a Collector.”
6. FSL FCF - HCF to Broadbent, January 11, 1928.
7. FSL FC B21 - HCF to Mrs. W. Seymour Edwards, January 5, 1915.
8. Dawson & Kennedy-Skipton, esp. 7–10; see also Preston & Yeandle.
9. Sherman, chap. 2.
10. Folger purchased Dowland scores from both Quaritch and Rosenbach, admitting to the latter that “Dowland gets into the list simply because his name is mentioned by Shakespeare,” FSL FC B1, March 9, 1927.
11. FSL FCF - HCF to Bertram Dobell, November 4, 1927.
12. SC B880 - MAJ correspondence, HCF to MAJ, April 21, 1912.
13. Sandburg, Lincoln Collector, 20.
14. FSL FCF - HCF to Oliver Barrett, July 26, 1920.
15. Shakespeare Association Bulletin 7, no. 3 (July 1932): 113.
16. FSL FC B5 - HCF to Michelmore & Co., June 1, 1922.
17. Vassar Quarterly 17, no. 1 (February 1932): 20–22.
18. FSL FC B37 - EJF Meridian Club Lecture, 1933. Stephen Galbraith in Foliomania also initially found the conceit “a strange idea,” before realizing that certain portraits, inscriptions, stained-glass windows, and other artifacts in the Library, in fact, relate directly to the First Folio.
19. An early playbill in the Folger collection announced a performance of Troilus and Cressida in Little Lincolns-Inn Fields in 1697.
20. See Fletcher, 48–50 and four pages of plates, for information about the earliest British playbills.
21. Folger bought his largest collection of playbills in 1898 from Boston auctioneer Chas. F. Libbie following the death of James Hutchinson Brown, a collector of theater playbills. See Folger collection of Libbie auction catalogs.
22. Hoving, 93.
23. FSL FCF - Warwick Library, F2
24. FSL FC B31 - HCF honorary LL.D. acceptance speech, 1914.
25. FSL FCF - Warwick Library, B6, 274.
26. FSL FC B60 - Münch recollections.
27. FSL FCF - Sotheran to HCF, January 18, 1908.
28. RM&L - Rosenbach address at FSL, April 28, 1947.
29. RM&L - Rosenbach talk before Library Club, Atlantic City, April 22, 1939, 1.
30. Wolf & Fleming, 117.
31. FSL FCF F Rosenbach Co. Perry Library.
32. FSL FCF F Rosenbach Co. Perry Library - HCF to Rosenbach, July 21, 1919.
33. Ibid.
34. FSL FCF F Rosenbach Co. Perry Library - Rosenbach to HCF, July 23, 1919.
35. FSL FC B5 - Cancelled checks.
36. FSL FCF F Rosenbach Co. Perry Library.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Stuart Baldridge, in World Magazine, December 28, 1919, 12.
40. FSL FCF F Rosenbach Co. Perry Library.
41. FSL FCF F Rosenbach Co. Perry Library - Rosenbach to HCF, July 23, 1919.
42. FSL FC B23 - HCF to JDR, March 13, 1895.
43. Chernow, “Clash of the Titans.”
44. A second copy (at McGill University) lacks the A1–A4signature and is cropped with injuries to some catchwords and state directions. See Matthew W. Black’s New Variorum edition of Richard II (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1955), 366.
45. Wolf & Fleming, 160–61.
46. FSL FCF - Rosenbach to HCF, June 27, 1922.
47. NYT, June 22, 1928.
48. NYT, March 31, 1929.
49. FSL FC B6 F White Library - Rosenbach to HCF, March 18, 1929.
50. FSL director report, 1942, 19.
51. FSL FC B6 - HCF to Rosenbach, March 16, 1929.
52. Courtesy of AC ASC, where Mrs. CMP donated their collection of butterfly books.
53. FSL FCF - HCF to Quaritch, December 17, 1920.
54. FSL FC B32 - Mary Pratt to Fawcett, n.d.
55. FSL FC B27 - Herbert L. Pratt to EJF, February 3, 1931.
56. FSL FC - Taped interview with Edward J. Dimock by O. B. Hardison, Folger Shakespeare Library director, February 24, 1970.
57. FSL FC B20 - HCF to Harry Shelley, December 24, 1917.
58. FSL FC B30 - HCF “Curious story of how Dr. Gott’s quartos were bought.”
Chapter 6 • Whole Volumes in Folio
1. Peter Blayney points to the printing of the First Folio as not “consistent” (10). Michael Bristol refers to its being “careless” (“HCF,” 147).
2. The volume contains thirty-six plays; two more, Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen, were added later.
3. Stanley Wells and others have endorsed the Cobbe Portrait—discovered in 2009—but the attribution remains in dispute.
4. See West, vol. 2.
5. Blayney writes, “The pages in the few largest copies measure about 13 1/2 by 8 3/4 inches. Most, however, are at least half an inch shorter and narrower” (9).
6. P. Collins, 43.
7. For a serious challenge to both assumptions—that Shakespeare was indifferent to publication and that publication was always detrimental to theater attendance—see Erne, who argues that the longer texts found in Folio were deliberately composed as reading pages, while the shorter Quarto texts were theatrical versions.
8. FSL FC B59 - Slade, Library Journal, July 1932.
9. FSL FCF - Folger copy 2, Robert M. Smith to McManaway, April 8, 1937.
10. LC MD J. Franklin Jameson Papers B22.
11. FSL FC B31 - HCF honorary LL.D. acceptance speech, 1914.
12. Adams, “Library,” 14.
13. FSL FC B31 - HCF honorary LL.D. acceptance speech, 1914.
14. See Hinman.
15. Blayney, 10–11.
16. Mayer.
17. FSL FC B38 - EJF Meridian Club lecture, November 9, 1923.
18. FSL FCF - HCF to Mayhew, May 17, 1915.
19. FSL FCF - W. Fulford Adams postcard to Mayhew, June 10, 1915.
20. FSL FCF - Folger copy 9, CMP cable to Bedford, March 31, 1897.
21. The Vincent copy lies closest to the ideal of a totally uncut Folio. See Blayney, n. 9, n. 44).
22. Early in 1622, William Jaggard began work on the First Folio, the same year in which he would complete the printing of Augustine Vincent’s Discoverie of Errours in the First Edition of Catalogue of Nobility, a genealogy of English nobility by Ralph Brooke that Jaggard had printed in 1619. The author belatedly found factual errors, which he blamed on Jaggard; Augustine’s critique vigorously faulted the author, not the printer. Interrupting work on the Folio allowed Jaggard not only to honor a debt to his friend Vincent but also to vent his spleen by way of a letter to Brooke included in the preliminaries to Vincent’s book. See Blayney, 5.
23. FSL FCF - Folger copy 1, Railton to HCF, April 1899.
24. FSL FCF - Folger copy 25, HCF to Quaritch, February 11, 1909.
25. FSL FCF - HCF to Alfred Sedgwick, March 17, 1911.
26. Hanmer’s immediate predecessors were Nicholas Rowe (1709, 1714), Alexander Pope (1723–25; 1728), and Lewis Theobold (1733). Although lavishly produced, Hanmer’s illustrated edition did not go back to the early quartos and folios, relying instead on Pope’s edition for his text. Liberal with his own alterations, he chose not to collate the editorial choices of those who went before him.
27. FSL FCF - Folger copy 16, HCF to Anderson, December 14, 1911.
28. FSL FCF - Folger copy 11, see Beaufoy Shakespeares booklet.
29. FSL FCF - Folger copy 11, HCF to E. H. Dring, March 23, 1914.
30. FSL FCF - HCF to Arthur H. Clark, December 19, 1921.
31. Punch, May 14, 1922.
32. FSL FCF - HCF to Maggs Bros., September 20, 1923.
33. Blayney, 45–46; West, “How Many First Folios.” See also Werstine, who began the dialogue on the accurate number of Folger copies. The prefatory section to each volume of the New Folger Library Shakespeare, edited by Werstine and Barbara Mowat, states, “Mr. Folger was able to acquire more than seventy-five copies [of the First Folio], as well as a large number of fragments” (see under “The Publication of Shakespeare’s Plays”).
34. FSL FCF - Folger copies 80–82.
35. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, December 26, 1929.
36. William V. Hester Jr., “Henry Clay Folger Jr.—Financier, Bibliographer,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 20, 1924, 9.
Chapter 7 • What News on the Rialto
1. Sowerby, 82–83.
2. Dickinson, 131.
3. FSL FCF - Estate of George D. Smith to HCF, June 1, 1920.
4. FSL FCF - Rosenbach to HCF, February 17, 1919.
5. RM&L F 1.63.02 - Rosenbach to HCF, November 27, 1926.
6. FSL FCF - Rosenbach to HCF, December 2, 1913.
7. Paul Sampson, “Queen Elizabeth’s Corset Expose Stays Myth at Folger,” WP, March 1, 1956.
8. FSL FC B28 - Welsh to Edgar Rogers, June 23, 1931.
9. FSL FCF - HCF to John Taylor, August 20, 1909.
10. FSL FCF - HCF to Carter, May 1, 1914.
11. FSL FCF - HCF to Thompson, January 28, 1927.
12. FSL FCF - HCF to Pickering & Chatto, January 25, 1928.
13. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, July 26, 1929.
14. FSL acquisition records.
15. FSL FCF - Dodd to HCF, July 19, 1895.
16. FSL FCF - HCF to Wright, November 10, 1900.
17. FSL FCF - HCF to Clark, February 13, 1920.
18. FSL FCF - HCF to Sessler, September 1924.
19. FSL FCF - HCF to Maggs Bros., November 12, 1926.
20. FSL FCF - HCF to Clark, February 13, 1920.
21. FSL FCF - HCF to Earle, December 17, 1915.
22. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, February 14, 1919.
23. FSL FCF - HCF to Maggs Bros., May 29, 1907.
24. FSL FCF - HCF to Maggs Bros., July 3, 1924.
25. FSL FCF - HCF to Broadbent, June 15, 1928.
26. FSL FCF - HCF to Arthur Reader, February 6, 1913.
27. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, March 7, 1930.
28. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, February 27, 1928.
29. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, May 19, 1922.
30. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, November 1, 1923.
31. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, April 11, 1918.
32. FSL FCF - HCF to George Dimock, November 22, 1917.
33. FSL FCF - HCF to Walters, April 15, 1926.
34. FSL FC B60 - Münch recollections.
35. FSL FCF - Dring to HCF, May 20, 1920.
36. FSL FCF - Quaritch to HCF, January 7, 1922.
37. FSL FCF - HCF to Smith, February 10, 1906.
38. FSL FCF - HCF to Barrett, July 26, 1920.
39. FSL FCF - HCF to Dodd, June 17, 1901.
40. FSL FCF - HCF to Smith, November 2, 1925.
41. FSL FCF - HCF to Smith, March 27, 1915.
42. FSL FCF - HCF to Maggs Bros., July 30, 1926.
43. FSL FCF - HCF to Gabriel Wells, January 13, 1929.
44. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, April 29, 1909.
45. FSL FCF - Wright to HCF, December 19, 1905.
46. FSL FCF - Wells to HCF, April 26, 1929.
47. FSL FCF - Rosenbach to HCF, March 23, 1921.
48. FSL FCF - Rosenbach cable to HCF, February 12, 1922.
49. FSL FCF - White to HCF, December 22, 1898.
50. FSL FCF - HCF to Forsyth, January 11, 1929.
51. FSL FCF - HCF to Marsden Perry, October 26, 1907.
52. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Putnam, February 16, 1928.
53. FSL FC BB9 - H.A., “By-the-bye in Wall Street,” WSJ, October 16, 1931.
54. FSL FCF - HCF to Chait, September 1, 1910.
55. FSL FCF - HCF to Broadbent, July 6, 1927.
56. FSL FCF - HCF to Broadbent, August 24, 1927.
57. FSL FCF - HCF to Sessler, October 5, 1926.
58. FSL FCF - HCF to Maggs Bros., September 3, 1926.
59. FSL FCF - Rosenbach to HCF, June 5, 1918.
60. Sowerby, 193–94.
61. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, April 8, 1929.
62. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, March 3, 1930.
Chapter 8 • Hotspur and Hal
1. Thorpe, 350.
2. Dickinson, 173.
3. HEHL F31.1.1.16.2 B1 - HCF to Huntington, June 30, 1922.
4. FSL FC B58 - Slade’s notes on HEHL.
5. Dickinson, 38.
6. Wolf & Fleming, 76.
7. Ibid., 152.
8. Rosenbach, “HCF as a Collector,” 85.
9. Dickinson, 128.
10. Wolf & Fleming, 268.
11. Pressly, 4, and email to author, September 22, 2010.
12. Wolf & Fleming, 118.
13. Dickinson, 144.
14. FSL FCF - HCF to Rosenbach, April 26, 1922.
15. RM&L - Rosenbach to HCF, August 13, 1919. Rosenbach’s proposed price to Folger was $5,550 net; he had written to Folger in a telegram, August 12, 1919.
16. See Dickinson, 128–29. The Richardus Tertius manuscript was not published until 1844.
17. FSL FCF - Rosenbach to HCF, October 15, 1921.
18. RM&L - Rosenbach address at FSL, April 28, 1947.
19. Wolf & Fleming, 236.
20. RM&L F I.62.20 - Rosenbach to HCF, June 22, 1923.
21. Thorpe, 495.
22. Wolf & Fleming, 585.
Chapter 9 • A Monument to Gentle Verse
1. FSL FC B56 - Possible sites for the library.
2. FSL FC B60 - Münch recollections.
3. FSL FC B33 - HCF to Putnam, January 19, 1928.
4. Burton & Perry, 1.
5. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Luce, April 23, 1928.
6. LC MD J. Franklin Jameson Papers, LD152.6 - AC class of 1879.
7. FSL FC B56 - HCF to McCreary, February 11, 1918.
8. FSL FC B33 - HCF to Putnam, January 19, 1928.
9. FSL FC B33 - Putnam to HCF, January 25, 1928.
10. FSL FC B33 - HCF will, March 10, 1927.
11. FSL FCF - HCF to Arthur H. Clark, December 14, 1922.
12. CR, 70th Cong., 1st sess., H.R. 9355, vol. 69, no. 114, April 30, 1928.
13. The savings lowered the budgeted cost of the annex from $780,000 to $600,000. CR, 70th Cong., 1st sess., H.R. Report no. 938, 3.
14. LC MD Herbert Putnam Papers - Putnam to HCF, May 8, 1928.
15. CR, 70th Cong., 1st sess., Calendar no. 1210, S. Report no. 1175, 3.
16. Statutes at Large, December 1927 to March 1929, vol. 45, part 1, 622–23.
17. Romeo and Juliet, 2.3.101. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Putnam, February 16, 1928.
18. FSL FC B57 - Trowbridge booklet.
19. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, October 9, 1928.
20. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, June 20, 1929.
21. UPenn RBML Cret papers - Trowbridge to Harbeson, November 12, 1928.
22. Philadelphia Athenaeum F FSL - Trowbridge to Cret, March 21, 1929.
23. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, March 5, 1929.
24. FSL FC B37 - EJF Meridian Club Lecture, 1933.
25. FSL FC BB9 - Fawcett, “Charm of Ordinary Print,” Sunday Star, Washington, DC, January 24, 1932.
26. FSL FC B57 - Harbeson to Hardison, April 25, 1972.
27. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, October 21, 1929.
28. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, October 21, 1929 (annotation by Trowbridge at the bottom of the original letter).
29. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Cret, May 9, 1930.
30. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, who added handwritten note, December 12, 1929.
31. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Cret, August 10, 1929.
32. The Fortune was an open-air playhouse built by Philip Henslowe in 1599–1600 north of the Thames. Breaking with the polygonal model of the Rose and the Globe, Henslowe favored a square shape for the Fortune.
33. UPenn RBML Cret papers - HCF to Trowbridge, May 20, 1929.
34. For a good discussion of playhouses in Shakespeare’s time, see Gurr, Playgoing and Shakespeare Stage. In Wickham, Berry, & Ingram, Berry discusses the twenty-three different London playhouses from 1560 to 1660 for which we have records.
35. Philadelphia Athenaeum F FSL - Cret notes, February 8, 1929.
36. FSL FC B57 - HCF toTrowbridge, February 28, 1929.
37. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, December 20, 1928.
38. Adams, Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library, 50.
39. FSL FC B23 - HCF to Frank O. Salisbury, December 24, 1928.
40. FSL FC B58 - EJF to Slade, March 7, 1932.
41. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, December 20, 1928.
42. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, December 13, 1929.
43. FSL FC B32 - Baird to Fawcett, n.d.
44. FSL FC B57 - HCF toTrowbridge, February 28, 1929.
45. UPenn RBML Cret papers - Cret to Harbeson, May 17, 1930.
46. UPenn RBML Cret papers - HCF to Cret, May 21, 1930.
47. UPenn RBML Cret papers - Trowbridge to Cret, June 20, 1930.
48. UPenn RBML Cret papers - Trowbridge to Harbeson, January 5, 1929.
49. FSL FC B32 - Cret to Fawcett, n.d.
50. FSL FC B32 - Trowbridge to Fawcett, n.d.
51. LC MD Putnam Papers - Trowbridge to HCF, February 28, 1929.
52. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Cret, January 28, 1930.
53. Philadelphia Athenaeum F FSL - Harbeson to E. F. Brinker of the Aluminum Co. of America, May 23, 1951.
Chapter 10 • Dear, Blessed Plot of Land
1. LC MD, Herbert Putnam Papers - EJF to Putnam, June 20, 1930.
2. UPenn RBML, Cret papers - Trowbridge to Cret, June 20, 1930.
3. FSL FC - Hardison taped interview with Edward J. Dimock, February 24, 1970.
4. King, Recollections, 2–3.
5. Dawson, 14.
6. FSL FC BB9 - WP, April 23, 1932.
7. AC ASC - Andrews to Morrow, February 27, 1931.
8. King, Endowment, 166.
9. FSL FC BB9 - Newark Star Eagle, October 22, 1931.
10. This is the day traditionally celebrated. There is no surviving birth certificate for Shakespeare, but we do have a baptismal record dated April 26, 1564. Because baptisms were held close to the date of birth, because April 23, 1616, is the day on which Shakespeare died, and because April 23 is also (rather attractively) the feast day of Saint George, the patron saint of England, biographers have settled on it as Shakespeare’s birthday. See Schoenbaum, 23–26.
11. FSL FC B58 - EJF to Adams, July 17, 1934.
12. King, Recollections, 21.
13. Wolf & Fleming, 325.
14. Hoover Presidential Library, F FSL - EJF to Hoover, July 28, 1934; Hoover to EJF, August 1, 1934; Hoover to EJF, October 17, 1934.
15. FSL FC B58 - Gregory to EJF, March 12, 1931.
16. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, July 3, 1929.
17. UPenn RBML, F HCF - Gregory to Cret, March 1, 1932.
18. King, Recollections, 8.
19. FSL director’s report, 1932–33, 6.
20. FSL FC B58 - Slade to EJF, December 4, 1931.
21. National Archives and Records Administration, Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon Papers.
22. “High Dignitaries Laud New Folger Library,” WP, April 23, 1932.
23. Author’s telephone interview with Walter Auclair, August 11, 2011.
24. FSL FC B25 - Dike to EJF, April 23, 1932.
25. FSL acquisition records. The Hoover rare book collection, with scientific volumes from as early as 1472, was donated by the Hoover family to the Claremont Colleges Library in 1970.
26. Author’s interview with Rachel Doggett, former curator of books and exhibitions, February 1, 2010.
27. FSL director’s report, 1933–34, 28.
28. Ibid., 16–17.
Epilogue • Praise in the Eyes of Posterity
1. FSL FC B20 - HCF to Roland Lewis, October 19, 1928.
2. Wright, Of Books and Men, 134,
3. Ibid., 135.
4. FSL J.Q. Adams correspondence - Adams to King, September 20, 1937.
5. FSL J.Q. Adams correspondence - King to Adams, September 23, 1937.
6. Mason, 750.
7. Ferington, 10.
8. King, Recollections, 32.
9. UPenn RBML, Cret Papers - Cret to Adams, September 28, 1939.
10. UPenn RBML, Cret Papers - Adams to Cret, October 2, 1939.
11. Philadelphia Athenaeum, F FSL - King to Cret, November 11, 1939.
12. FSL director’s report, 1939–1940, 2
13. Dawson, 30.
14. FSL director’s report, 1938–1939, 16.
15. FSL director’s report, 1934–1935, 35.
16. FSL director’s report, 1938–1939, 39.
17. P. Collins, 147.
18. King, Recollections, 36.
19. Ibid., 39.
20. Dawson, 94.
21. Wright, Folger Library, Of Books and Men.
22. Wright, Of Books and Men, 134.
23. Vaughan & Vaughan, Shakespeare in America, 172.
24. Prentiss to author, email, January 16, 2013.
25. Author’s interview with Mrs. O. B. Hardison, February 8, 2013.
26. Wright, Folger Library, 267.
27. For reasons of space, no attempt has been made in this epilogue to give a summary of acquisitions or exhibitions.
28. FLN, June 1980.
29. FLN, June 1979.
30. FLN, June 1982.
31. Ibid.
32. FLN, October 1982.
33. FLN, February 1983.
34. See www.folger.edu/kjb.
35. Author’s interview with Bacon, July 16, 2008.
36. Richards, “Folger Will Shut Theatre,” WP, January 15, 1985.
37. Author’s phone interview with Longsworth, February 11, 2013.
38. Molotsky, “Panel Hopes to Save Folger Theater,” WP, January 31, 1985.
39. FSL FC B57 - HCF to Trowbridge, June 20, 1929.
40. Wright, Folger Library, 268.
41. “A snapshot of major theater venues in the Washington region,” WP, January 8, 2012.
42. The novel is Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with their Bones (New York: Dutton, 2007).
43. Folger Shakespeare Library, foreword.
44. Ferington, 95.
45. “Strategic Plan for the Folger Shakespeare Library,” June 7, 2013, p. 3.
46. FSL FC B58 - HCF note among EJF correspondence with Adams.
47. Author’s interview with Michael Witmore, April 3, 2013.
48. The Folger defines rare books in its library as books published before 1830.