One Touch of Shakespeare: Letters of Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris, 1875-1878A collection of excerpts from 251 letters written by a shy widower and grocer in Zanesville. Ohio, who, in his time, was one of three Americans who could be called learned and eminent Shakespeareans. They are concerned with book collection, stage production, stage history, the state of the English language in Shakespeare's time, criticism, and interpretation of the text. |
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... letters on half - sheets or even scraps of paper of any kind ( to Norris's annoyance ) , and once in a while he put a final postscript on the envelope . The hand is easily legible ; not more than a 20 ONE TOUCH OF SHAKESPEARE.
... letters on half - sheets or even scraps of paper of any kind ( to Norris's annoyance ) , and once in a while he put a final postscript on the envelope . The hand is easily legible ; not more than a 20 ONE TOUCH OF SHAKESPEARE.
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... kind of consumer for just the same reasons ) , were a nineteenth - century innovation , largely the invention of Charles Knight in the late 1830s . Crosby's account of the marketing forty years later in Zanesville of Virtue and ...
... kind of consumer for just the same reasons ) , were a nineteenth - century innovation , largely the invention of Charles Knight in the late 1830s . Crosby's account of the marketing forty years later in Zanesville of Virtue and ...
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