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Manuscripts in the Folger collections
Interrogating a hermit
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Interrogating a hermit

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Heather Wolfe

Three months ago the Folger was lucky enough to acquire a letter from Thomas Cromwell to George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury. I say lucky because while roughly 350 letters from Cromwell survive, almost all of them are at either the…

From printing house to coffee house
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From printing house to coffee house

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Heather Wolfe

Last Friday a much-anticipated package arrived at the Folger, containing a series of fifteen deeds describing the successive ownership of two adjacent properties on Fleet Street (“The King’s Highway”) in London from 1543 to 1735. Deeds can be tedious to…

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