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The Meaning of Mining from Agricola to Zárate
Fellow Anita Raychawdhuri explores how mining was imagined in the Early Modern world by examining images and tales of colonial Peru.
![AG3-scaled-aspect-ratio-1831-2050 The title of the book followed by a square image of a dancing faun-like figure surrounded by a circle of tiny dancers.](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2024/06/AG3-scaled-aspect-ratio-1831-2050-scaled.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
Better than a Pound of Sorrow: Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England
Fellow Andrés Gattinoni looks at Early Modern collections of music and jokes intended to cure melancholy.
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Two versions of Thomas Cromwell's very urgent letter conveying Henry VIII's impatience over his impending marriage to Anne of Cleves
A suggested solution to May’s Folger Mystery about two almost identical letters regarding Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne of Cleves in the Folger’s Collection.
![M.S. Account of the Lady Lucy A small brown volume with gold lettering being held by a hand mostly out of frame](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2024/04/M.S.-Account-of-the-Lady-Lucy-scaled-e1713973969136.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
A ‘declineing time’? The final illnesses of Constance and Elizabeth Lucy
Folger Fellow Emma Marshall explores the history of the women of the Lucy family.
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Beyond a Cure for Plague
Fellow Kathleen Miller explores the Early Modern use of plague cures to treat more than one type of illness
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Charles T. Grilley and the Garrick letter
How Henry Folger acquired a David Garrick letter in our collection
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Marmalade boxes, Lenten fasts, and love
Heather Wolfe discovers the true intentions behind Jane Skipwith’s marmalade box
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Our new digital collections site is here!
Announcing the launch of our new digital collections site!
![Re-back_blog_image_05 Two photos of a spine of a book laid on top of each other. Both have an exposed spine but the bottom image has a endcap at the top of the spine and thin paper has been laid over the exposed edges of the paper.](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2023/11/Re-back_blog_image_05.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
“To re-back, or not to re-back”
Book and Paper Conservator Rachel Bissonnette gives a look behind the scenes at the conservation work done on one of our collection’s books.
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Flamboyant Plants
Artistic Research Fellow Amy Reid explores the queer history and meaning of plants using the Folger collection in an audiovisual project.
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Surveying the Bird’s-Eye View
Fellow Mark Rosen explores the Folger’s collection from a bird’s-eye view.
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Of Actors, Playwrights, and Porcupines
Folger fellow Corinne Bayerl explores the bestiary deployed in polemics about theatre across Europe.