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Add. MS b/61
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W. Aldis Wright: Shakespeariana (notes and correspondence)
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- 1861-1896 (Creation)
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1 box: 138 Items (loose notes, notebook, correspondence, printed material, paper cuttings).
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Notes on Shakespeare by W. Aldis Wright, Sir Philip Perring, Albert Matthews, George Parker, H. P. Stokes, Eduard Thiessen and G. O. Wray. Printed reply by Edward H. Pickersgill to a paper by James Spedding, interleaved with Spedding's MS comments.
Letters (some of those without stated address perhaps originally sent to W. G. Clark) including correspondence from P. A. Daniel, W. G. Fletcher, F. J. Furnivall, R. Markham Hill, C. M. Ingleby; also some draft letters from W. Aldis Wright to various correspondents.
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Other material relating to W. Aldis Wright's work on Shakespeare can be found in Add.MS.b.58-60, 62
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- Perring, Sir Philip (1828–1920) 4th baronet, Shakespearean scholar (Subject)
- Matthews, Albert (1860-1946) lexicographer (Subject)
- Parker, George (fl 1880s-1890s) librarian (Subject)
- Stokes, Henry Paine (1849-1931) clergyman (Subject)
- Thiessen, Eduard (fl 1871) translator (Subject)
- Wray, George Octavius (1822-1893) clergyman (Subject)
- Pickersgill, Edward Hare (1850-1911) politician (Subject)
- Spedding, James (1808-1881), literary editor and biographer (Subject)
- Clark, William George (1821-1878), literary and classical scholar (Subject)
- Daniel, Peter Augustin (1827-1917) literary scholar (Subject)
- Furnivall, Frederick James (1825-1910), textual scholar and editor (Subject)
- Hill, Robert Markham (c 1846-1920) clergyman (Subject)
- Ingleby, Clement Mansfield (1823-1886) Shakespearean critic and author (Subject)