Henry clay folger biography of michaels

Guest peg by Author H. Grant

Here are threesome things hide remember travel Henry Dirt Folger adorned his 158th birthday, June 18, 2015.

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Looking Not on His Picture, but His Books: Two New Histories of Folger’s Quest for First Folios Shed Unintended Light on the Authorship Question

A Review Essay by Michael Dudley

Originally published in Brief Chronicles First Folio Special Edition (2016), pages 133–139

The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio by Andrea E. Mays. Simon & Schuster, New York, New York (2015). 350 pages. Hardcover, $27.00.

Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger by Stephen H. Grant. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2014). 244 pages. Hardcover, $29.95.

A literary-minded gentleman who sits close to the levers of power, and with talents recognized by only a few insiders, embarks on a hidden career to develop his country’s nascent culture, inspired by that of an older European civilization. Living a double life over several decades and working in secret—his identity concealed by a front man—he lavishes his substantial fortune on theatrical works to the point of exceeding his income and going repeatedly into debt, leaving contemporary observers to wonder in print about his real identity.

For readers at all acquainted with the Oxfordian theory of Shakespearean authorship, this description will immediately rec

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Letter to Henry Clay Folger on his 165th Birthday, June 18, 2022

Henry (if I may), I first learned about you at Amherst College. Here you are with Emily at the 45th reunion of the class of 1879. I also attend my Amherst reunions.

Fig. 1. You and Emily in the reunion photo. Folger Shakespeare Library

You liked to sing at Amherst and so did I. We both sang bass. We would have been a pair; you were 5’4” and I’m 6’4”. Your canes had it all over our purple freshman beanies.

Fig. 2. Amherst Glee Club. You are in first row, second on left. Folger Shakespeare Library

An Amherst classmate, Israel T. Deys, described you as “quiet, reserved, and studious.” Emily put it, “a modest and unpretending man.” In 1930, which would become the year of your death, however, something was gnawing at you. You desired to be honored. You wondered about it “a great deal.” You wished a book to be written about you, a book of 550 pages, like the one you read on Herbert Putnam. If you will allow, Henry, you bear some responsibility. You insisted on keeping a low profile, keeping out of the news, whether you were buying books or property. You gave only one interview. You didn’t sign your cables “FOLGER.” You signed them “GOLFER.”

Fig. 3. Your Jan. 3, 1930 letter to Librarian of Congress, H