Autograph Letter from Sir Walter Raleigh, London, to Mr. Peter Vanlore

Autograph Letter from Sir Walter Raleigh, London, to Mr. Peter Vanlore

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Published: 1616

Total Pages: 4

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Consists of draft letter intended to be copied by Vanlore, and sent from Vanlore to Sir Adrian Thibaut, Vanlore's brother-in-law, in Amsterdam. The letter concerns investments relating to Raleigh's final expedition to Guiana in search of gold, to be agreed upon with Raleigh's deputy Mr. Henry Hovenar. Also includes, in another hand signed by Martin Basill, "This letter was shewn unto Mathias Penewart, at the tyme of his examination, on the part and behalf of Sir Peter Van Lore, knt, deft., against Dame Elizabeth Raleigh, widow, comp[lainan]et, 12 Junnii, 1623."


Autograph and Typed Letters Signed to Sir Walter Wilson Greg from Various Correspondents

Autograph and Typed Letters Signed to Sir Walter Wilson Greg from Various Correspondents

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Published: 1936

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(1) and (2) are typed letters signed from Joseph Q. Adams, on letterhead of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (1) is dated April 16, 1936 and (2) is dated May 11, 1936. Both letters concern a Henry Peacham manuscript of portions of Titus Andronicus and the possibility of a Collier forgery; (3) Autograph letter signed from E.K. Chambers, Eynsham, and dated May 17, 1936. Regarding letters and signs in a proof which he thinks it would be convenient for Greg to have; (4) Typed letter signed from Graham Pollard of Birrell & Garnett, London, dated 21 July 1937. Concerns an error Greg pointed out in Pollard's paper; (5) Autograph letter (incomplete) from James G. McManaway on letterhead of the Folger Shakespeare Library dated 26 March 1940. Discusses Massinger's The Picture and copies of Gosse and Lefferts; with a typescript leaf listing typographical errors in a copy of Massinger's The Picture and one leaf containing a copy of a signature of Christofer Marley, witness to the will of Katherine Benchkin, from John Bakeless's Christopher Marlowe, Howard University Press, 1942, vol. 1, p. 208, pasted on a larger leaf; (6) Typed letter signed from Giles E. Dawson, Folger Shakespeare Library, dated 7 June 1952. Concerning " a brief note to Bowers ... in which I asked his opinion of your footnote on my little paper on the printing of Troilus"; (7) Typed letter signed from James G. McManaway, Folger Shakespeare Library, dated March 30, 1953. He writes that the Oxinden MS, no. 750.1 is here and Greg may have a photostat of the list.


Autograph Letter Signed from J.W. Wallack to Unidentified Recipient

Autograph Letter Signed from J.W. Wallack to Unidentified Recipient

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Published: 1791

Total Pages: 2

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Wallack writes that he "does not have dresses for the other parts and have those that I have named." In all of his engagements in his life he has never had half the trouble or controversy which this one has given him; it is evident he is not to act in Brighton; refers to Charles Kean. Letter is addressed "My dear Sir."