Item 40 - Letter from F. David Hoeniger to Sir Walter Greg

Identity area

Reference code

GREG/1/40

Title

Letter from F. David Hoeniger to Sir Walter Greg

Date(s)

  • 30 May 1957 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 single sheet

Context area

Name of creator

Greg, Sir Walter Wilson (1875-1959), knight, literary scholar and bibliographer
(1875-1959)

Repository

Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

'As from' 11 Highgate West Hill, London, N.6.—Thanks him for his comments about the copy for Pericles (the first quarto).

—————

Transcript

as from 11 Highgate West Hill
LONDON N.6.
May 30, 1957

Sir Walter Greg,
Tanners Knap,
Petworth,
Sussex.

Dear Dr. Greg,

Your kind answer to my enquiry concerning Pericles was forwarded to my temporary address in Devon.

Your comments and thoughts are helpful. You have strengthened my doubts about the idea of mixed copy, a tempting but very improbable solution of the problem. The suggestion that one may be able to account for those features in the text that look like foul papers by postulating that the reporter made additions and changes in his copy is at least a good hypothesis to work on. If I will not be able to arrive at more definite conclusions after further analysis of the text, such sound thinking is at least a step in the right direction. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me.

Yours sincerely,
F. David Hoeniger.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

    Script of material

      Language and script notes

      Physical characteristics and technical requirements

      Finding aids

      Uploaded finding aid

      papers-of-w-w-greg.pdf

      Allied materials area

      Existence and location of originals

      Existence and location of copies

      Related units of description

      Formerly inserted in Greg's copy of the Shakespeare Association facsimile of the 1609 quarto of Pericles (1940) (LL 027 SHA 255).

      Related descriptions

      Notes area

      Alternative identifier(s)

      Access points

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Name access points

      Genre access points

      Description identifier

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      Status

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation revision deletion

      This description was created by A. C. Green in 2020.

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Accession area