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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
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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1708-1955
(Bulk: 1923-1955)
Creator:
Weisberger, Siegfried, 1896-1984, Author
Extent: 4 linear feet (4 boxes)
This collection includes material collected by Siegfried Weisbeger (1896-1984), proprietor of the Peabody Book Shop in Baltimore
Maryland and confidante of H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), a noted writer, editor, and social provocateur, famous for his disdain
for common morals and received wisdom. The collection contains correspondence between the two men and other correspondents
of the Peabody Book Shop, manuscripts and published writings by and about Mencken (many of them signed), and autobiographical
writings and poems written by Weisberger.
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