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Add. MS b/62
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W. Aldis Wright: Shakespeariana (printed material, notes and correspondence)
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- 1864-1919 (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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Other material relating to W. Aldis Wright's work on Shakespeare can be found in Add.MS.b.58-61
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- Clark, William George (1821-1878), literary and classical scholar (Subject)
- Phillipps, 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)