urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00878 Benjamin Blom Drama Collection: An Inventory of His Collection of Shakespeare Materials at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Betsy Nitsch Harry Ransom Center, 2012 Finding aid encoded by Daniela Lozano 22 April 2013 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Blom, Benjamin Benjamin Blom Drama Collection: Shakespeare Material 1864-1927, undated 10 document boxes (4.2 linear feet) Contains bound volumes of Shakespeare’s works, each heavily annotated and accompanied by an introductory essay. Also included are French translations for several Shakespeare plays, a handwritten, illuminated volume of twenty-five Shakespeare sonnets, an 1864 letter from the National Shakespeare Committee, production notes for Twelfth Night, and a notebook by Henry Saint-George (1866-1917) concerning the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. English and French Manuscript Collection MS-3796 Acquisition:

1963, 1973 (R880)

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Open for research. Part or all of this collection is housed off-site and may require up to three business days' notice for access in the Ransom Center's Reading and Viewing Room. Please contact the Center before requesting this material: reference@hrc.utexas.edu.

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This finding aid replicates some information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

Container List Works: 1.1 Twenty-five sonnets, Ams written out by Alfred J. Fairbank and illuminated by Louise Powell [27pp], 1927 March 29. The dramatic works of Shakspeare [sic], Bound volumes heavily annotated, nd. 2.1 Preface and introductory essays 2.2 All’s well that ends well 2.3 Antony and Cleopatra 2.4 As you like it 2.5 Comedy of errors 3.1 Coriolanus 3.2 Cymbeline 3.3 Hamlet 3.4 Julius Caesar 4.1 King Henry IV, part I 4.2 King Henry IV, part II 4.3 King Henry V 4.4 King Henry VI, part II 5.1 King Henry VIII 5.2 King John 5.3 King Lear 5.4 King Richard II 6.1 King Richard III 6.2 Love’s labour lost 6.3 Macbeth 6.4 Measure for measure 6.5 Merchant of Venice 7.1 Merry wives of Windsor 7.2 A midsummer night’s dream 7.3 Much ado about nothing 7.4 Othello 7.5 Romeo and Juliet 8.1 Sonnets, A lover’s complaint, Passionate pilgrim 8.2 Taming of the shrew 8.3 Timon of Athens 8.4 Titus Andronicus 8.5 Troilus and Cressida 9.1 Twelfth night 9.2 Two gentlemen of Verona 9.3 Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece 9.4 Winter’s Tale 1.2 Henry V: translated by Sallé, Marcel, Handwritten manuscript with handwritten revisions, nd. 1.3 Roméo et Juliette: translated into the French by Koszul, A[ndré Henri], Handwritten signed manuscript with handwritten revisions, nd. 1.4 A Shakespeare primer; compiled by Delcourt, Joseph, Handwritten manuscript with handwritten revision, nd. Miscellaneous: 10.1 [Unidentified author], [Production notes for Twelfth night], Handwritten and typed manuscripts [2pp], nd. 10.2 Colman, Marguerite, En marge de Shakespeare, Handwritten signed manuscript, 1927 November. 10.3 National Shakespeare Committee, London, Handwritten signed letter to Runbault, E F , 1864 January 29. 10.4 Piachaud, René Louis, 1896-1941, Le songe d’une nuit, ou la mi-été. Traduction libre, prosaïque et rhyme, Handwritten manuscript with revisions [112pp], nd. 10.5 Saint-George, Henry, 1866-1917, The young man from Stratford: a journeyman’s view of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, Handwritten signed manuscript in a notebook, with handwritten transcripts of printed articles by others [19pp; 56pp], 1911.