Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger

Index

Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations and tables. Abbott, Lawrence F., 100 Ackermann, Frederick, 70 Adams, Henry, 1 Adams, John, 27, 77 Adams, Joseph Quincy: career of, 171, 172, 192–93; chimney in reading room and, 184–85; Dawson and, 181; on Folger priorities , 204; Harmsworth collection and, 190–91; “Shakespeare Birthday Lecture,” 179–80; “Shakespeare’s Playhouses,” 150–51; Stone and, 188; Willoughby and, 189 Adelman, Stuart L., 199 Adelphi Academy, 8–9, 13, 30 All’s Well That Ends Well, 29 allusion books, 77 Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, 11–12, 12, 13 Amherst, Jeffrey, 100, 101 Amherst, Massachusetts, 9 Amherst College: Dramatic Society, 194; EJF honorary degree from, 171; endowed professorships at, 169, 179; English reading room at, 42; Folger Prize, 40, 179; Folger Theatre Group and, 197–98; gifts to, 42, 93, 120; Glee Club, 21; HCF as student at, 9–13, 12, 45; HCF death and, 166–67; HCF honorary degree from, 37, 83, 99; HCF scrapbook about, 19–22; library administration by, 166–68, 169–70, 171–72, 192, 201–2; Masquers , 194; opening and dedication of library and, 178, 179; Shakespeare discussion group at, 30; Shakespeare prize at, 29–30 Anderson, John, 38, 102 Anderson Galleries, New York, 38, 127 Andrews, Charles A., 169–70 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 203 Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 196, 200 Anglo-American Oil Company, 112 antitrust actions, 59 Antony and Cleopatra, 29, 185 Archbold, John, 45, 49, 56, 57–59, 68 Architects Advisor Council award, 148 Architects Advisory Council award, 162 association books, 77 As You Like It, 2, 7, 29, 70, 76, 79, 95, 105, 151, 154 Babbott, Frank, 30 Bacon, Francis, 78 Bacon, Ken, 197 Baird, James, 158, 159, 163 Baird, Theodore, 179 Bald, R. C., 189 Bardolatry, 34 Barlow, Montague, 108 Barrett, Oliver, 80, 119 Barry, Marion, 197 Bartlett, Henrietta, 192 Bauer, Oswald A., 140, 141–42 Beaumont Refinery Company, 55, 56, 57 Beecher, Catherine, 15 Beecher, Henry Ward, 8, 11–12, 15, 126 Bernhardt, Sarah, 34 Bier, Robert, 181 Bixby, William K., 133 Blayney, Peter, 36, 98, 102, 105 Bliss, Leslie, 127 236 Index Bodleian Library, England, 130, 192, 197 Bond, William Ross and Theodora Sedgwick, 196 book auctions: acquisitions and, 83; agents at, 108; catalogs of, 109 books: on butterflies, 90–91; marginal notations by HCF in, 31; types of in collection, 77–78; visual beauty of, 115–16 booksellers: auctions and, 121; correspondence with, 110–11, 113–15, 116–17, 136–37; death of HCF and, 164; return of books to, 116–17, 124. See also specific booksellers, i.e., Rosenbach , A. S. W. Booth, Edwin, 37, 77, 119, 191 Bristol, Michael, 28 British Museum, 38, 107, 130, 192 Britwell-Court Library collection, 88, 108, 135–36 Brooke, Ralph, 217n. 22 Brooklyn, home in, 165 Brown, James Hutchinson, 215n. 21 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 3, 29, 37 Browning, Robert, 37, 77 Bryce, James, 1 Burford, Laura, 182 Burns, Robert, 3, 37, 77 butterflies, books on, 90–91 Byron, Lord, 3 Cadman, Samuel Parkes, 91–92, 163, 178, 180, 185 capital gains taxes, 69, 73 card catalog, 111 Carlyle, Thomas, 28, 31, 37, 77 Carter, Howard, xiii catalogs of book auctions, 109 Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (de Ricci and Wilson), 188 Central Congregational Church, 91–92, 163 Central Park, Manhattan, 40 Charles (prince), 202 Charles Pratt & Company, 46 checks saved and written by HCF, 69–70, 71, 71, 73, 87 Chernow, Ron, 88 Christie-Miller, S. R., 88 Church, E. Dwight, 131 Churchill, George B., 40 Churchill, Winston, 44 Claudel, Paul, 178–79 Clay, Henry, 4 Clemens, Samuel, 38 Clemmers, William B., 158, 170, 179 clipping bureaus, 109 Cochrane, Alexander S., 131–32 Cole, Charles W., 194 Cole, George Watson, 129, 131, 134 Coles, William C., 70 collection: access to, 127; allusion books in, 77; assessment of upon death of HCF, 164; association books in, 77; classification system for, 189; desired items for, 82, 111; duplicate volumes in, 120; exchanging and selling from, 119–20; expansion of, 189, 190–91, 192–93; extra-illustrated books in, 77–78, 117; literary focus of, 75–76, 114, 116; manuscripts in, 79; musical literature and period instruments in, 79; paintings in, 80; physical task of handling, 116; plagiarisms in, 80; playbills in, 81; prompt books in, 77; rare book, first purchase of, 82; reference materials in, 81–82; scope of, 205; Shakespeare authorship as category for, 78; signatures in, 80–81; Slade on, 76; source books in...