Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger

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Notes 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 210 Notes to Pages ix–15 SOCA 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. Notes to Pages 16–36 211 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...