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Henry Clay Folger

Charles T. Grilley and the Garrick letter
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Charles T. Grilley and the Garrick letter

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Erin Blake

How Henry Folger acquired a David Garrick letter in our collection

No Standard Oil Company? No Shakespeare Collection!
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No Standard Oil Company? No Shakespeare Collection!

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Stephen H. Grant

A Guest Post by Stephen Grant A decade ago when I was determining angles to consider in approaching Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger, some readers—perhaps at 3 pm Folger tea—recommended I write only on the Folgers…

Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part II
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Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part II

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Stephen H. Grant

A Guest Post by Stephen Grant Fig. 1 Picturesque Truckee River View on S.P.R.R. Collators, we pick up from the series of picture postcards Henry Folger sent to his wife Emily in Brooklyn during his Standard Oil Company business trips…

Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part I
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Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part I

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Stephen H. Grant

A guest post by Stephen Grant Like Emily Jordan Folger, Henry Clay Folger manifests his deltiological profile in two ways. First, he purchases picture postcards and sends them to his wife when he is on business trips. I found no…

Lost at Sea
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Lost at Sea

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Elizabeth DeBold

Shakespeare liked shipwrecks, including one in at least five of his plays. Sea storms and shipwrecks were a convenient way to separate characters or bring them into conflict, as well as stranding them in a strange place. In the “Age…

Mr. Folger's most expensive painting
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Mr. Folger's most expensive painting

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Erin Blake

There’s a persistent rumor that “Mr. Folger never paid more than x for a painting.” The value of x depends on who’s telling the story, but it’s generally around $2,000 and is used as evidence that he wasn’t interested in paintings.…