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Autograph letter signed from W.J. (William John) Lawrence, Dublin, Irish Free State, to Dr. Adams [Joseph Quincy Adams] [manuscript], 1925 May 7.

Lawrence, William J. (William John), 1862-1940, sender.; Adams, Joseph Quincy, 1881-1946, addressee.
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Title
Autograph letter signed from W.J. (William John) Lawrence, Dublin, Irish Free State, to Dr. Adams [Joseph Quincy Adams] [manuscript], 1925 May 7.
Description
1 item.
Associated name
Lawrence, William J. (William John), 1862-1940, sender.
Adams, Joseph Quincy, 1881-1946, addressee.
Scope and content
Discusses with Adams an invitation issued to him by J.L. Lowes [John Livingston Lowes] to go to Harvard for the first half of the next academic year and give two courses on the (entire) seventeenth-century theatre. He also mentions William Archer's brother, who has sent to Lawrence for examination a big bundle of his dead friend's [William Archer] Elizabethan memoranda and cuttings with the view of determining the things of value and what should be destroyed.
Source of acquisition
Gift of Joseph Q. Adams, March 15, 1943.
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Letters (correspondence)
Place of creation/publication
Ireland -- Dublin.

Call number
Y.c.3677
Folger accession
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