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- 1864-1900 (Creation)
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1 box
47 items: printed material, news cuttings, photographs, notes and correspondence.
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Predominantly printed material: extracts from journals and newspapers; prefaces; programmes and dinner menus of Shakespeare societies; examination papers; printed correspondence (including between J. O. Halliwell-Philipps and Robert Browning regarding the New Shakspeare Society); frontispiece purportedly from the 1599 edition of Venus and Adonis probably from the 1879 Sotheran facsimile edition. Letters from P. Lyttelton Gell, George Litting, Henry Weston Eve and John Doran.
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An undated handwritten list, found in the box, has been scanned and attached to this record as a digital object. Please note that, while some errors have been detected and corrected, others may remain.
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- Clark, William George (1821–1878) Shakespearean scholar (Subject)
- Philipps, James Orchard Halliwell- (1820-1889) Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and collector of childhood rhymes and stories (Subject)
- Browning, Robert (1812-1889) poet (Subject)
- Gell, Philip Lyttelton (1852-1926) President of the British South Africa Co (Subject)
- Eve, Henry Weston (1838-1910) author and headmaster (Subject)
- Doran, John (1807-1878) editor and writer of miscellany (Subject)