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Date: 1800s
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1801-1961
(Bulk: 1907-1960)
Creator:
Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 1875-1960, Author
Extent: 46.2 linear feet (93 boxes)
Arthur Hobson Quinn (1875-1960) was a professor and dean of English and History at the University of Pennsylvania and an internationally
recognized authority on the history of American drama. This collection contains material representative of Quinn’s entire
professional life: correspondence, manuscripts of books and articles, lecture notes, reviews of contemporary plays, his collection
of playbills and libretti, and material related to his research on Edgar Allan Poe and the American realist playwright James
A. Herne.
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1575-1991
(Bulk: 1812-1930)
Creator:
Furness Family
Extent: 10 linear feet (20 boxes and one oversized folder)
The H.H. Furness Memorial Library focuses on the study of Shakespeare and other Tudor and Stuart dramatists. Horace Howard
Furness (1833-1912) and his son Horace Howard Furness Jr. (1865-1930) founded and edited the Variorum Shakespeare and their
library was donated to the University of Pennsylvania in 1932. This collection contains personal correspondence to and from
Rev. William Henry Furness (1802-1896), Horace Howard Furness, and Horace Howard Furness, Jr., largely relating to Shakespearean
study and the H.H. Furness Memorial library; notebooks; copies of speeches and articles; and other assorted items relating
to Shakespearean scholarship or to the Furness family.
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