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Lauren Working

visited the Folger as a fellow in May 2019. She is a postdoc on the TIDE project (Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, 1550-1700) at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on Jacobean sociability, politics, and empire; the Anglo-Algonquian Chesapeake; wit and political friendships at the Inns of Court; and material and visual approaches to civility. Lauren’s next project will explore female colonial interests and transcultural objects.
All the world and half a dozen lemons
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All the world and half a dozen lemons

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A guest post by Lauren Working Letter from Thomas Wood to Richard Bagot, 10 October 1576, Folger MS L.a.987 (click for zoomable version) Thomas Wood’s 1576 letter to Richard Bagot begins conventionally enough. Wood was sending some artichoke “slips” with…