Manuscripts

Annotations on the Shakespeare Manuscripts in Answer to Malone

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Description: There are numerous original letters included which deal with the matter of the forgeries.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1796.
Call number: mssHM 725
Creator: Ireland, Samuel (-1800)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from John Eliot Hodgkin sale, 1914.
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William Shakespeare deeds

Manuscripts

Three deeds enclosed in box: Shakespeare's Deed of Gift to Ireland, 1604; Shakespeare and Lowine, 1609; Shakespeare's Lease to Fraser, 1611. Each deed is written on vellum, with wax seals, and boxed separately. A note enclosed with the Deed of Gift to Ireland reads: "To substantiate his claim to the ownership of the documents, Ireland forged a Deed of Gift from Shakespeare to a suppositious ancestor, also named William Henry Ireland. This is the Original Forgery."

mssHM 84537

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Shakespeare monument: "Vertue on Shakespeare's Will and Shakespeare's Monument" (annotated typescript and manuscript fragment)

Manuscripts

This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.

mssEsdaile

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Manuscripts

Most of Farquhar's diaries, which are arranged, chronologically, include his daily activities but also include reminiscences about his life and family history and musings on a variety of topics. There is one "Account Book and Memo Book" from 1902 to 1907 and one "Journal" which includes Farquhar's memories of his life (it includes no daily entries). His earlier diaries (1906-1911) were written while he was living in Washington; the later diaries were written while he was living in California. In his diaries Farquhar also talks about the attack on Pearl Harbor, World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, his brother-in-law Rear Admiral William R. Furlong, the bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's surrender. Many of the volumes have loose clippings with them, the majority of which are obituaries for people Farquhar knew. The manuscripts include copies of several of his writings including '49, And what of the years?, and History of Livingston, California. These books deal with early California pioneer history, the Gold Rush, and the Chinese in California. There are also two manuscripts regarding the genealogy of the Burgess and Farquhar families. These manuscripts, which are arranged alphabetically by title, are all carbon copies with Farquhar's handwritten edits.

mssHM 71720-71742

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Manuscripts

mssHM 71720-71742

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John Chamberlain correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton, 1608/09, January 3 to 1613, November 25 : autograph transcripts by Edmond Malone

Manuscripts

This volume of approximately 600 pages is a selection of letters transcribed by Edmond Malone from the mid-18th century Birch MS 4173 (British Library) volume; the letters are descriptive of the life and times of James I, his court and the political intrigues of the day. There are references to, among others: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Walter Raleigh, the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, the divorce of the Earl of Essex and Lady Frances Howard, and the Gunpowder Plot; Malone also adds many explanatory notes to the original manuscript. The volume has a brown calf binding with "MS. Malone Papers, 1608-1613" on the spine, which is slightly damaged.

mssHM 2904

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W.H. Ireland original manuscripts and letters connected with forgeries

Manuscripts

This material includes engravings, letters, manuscripts, printed material and ephemera: engraving of Samuel Ireland (HM 82629), facsimile signatures from the 16th-18th centuries to be used as exemplars by W.H. Ireland (HM 82630), prospectus for Samuel Ireland's Shakspeare book (HM 82631), W.H. Ireland letter to John Dent (HM 82632), Shakspeare Admission Ticket (HM 82633), The Oaken Chest of the Gold Mines of Ireland [caricature] (HM 82634), W.H. Ireland letter to Sir Godfrey Webster (HM 82635), note by John D. Dent (?) (HM 82636), and original labeled folio folder owned by J.E. Hodgkin (Ephemera).

mssHM 82629-82636

Annotations on the Shakespeare Manuscripts in Answer to Malone

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