Stephen H. Grant

A Foreign Service officer, I’ve published 5 books in 4 countries: 3 on vintage picture postcards and 2 biographies of little-known enterprising Americans.

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A letter to Henry Clay Folger, founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library, on his 165th birthday, from his biographer. #shakespeare #folgershakespearelibrary #collecting #collectingmemories #collectingshakespeare #HenryFolger #ShakespeareSunday
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Are you homebound during #Covid and living near trees, hedges, and flower beds? Perhaps you are occupying a front-row seat for some of Nature’s immutable drama that takes place in and around bird nests! #NorthernVirginia in May-Jun…https://t.co/EWddaunA7d https://t.co/f1IZf3RrDa

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Trained surgeon and #Salvadoran President Manuel Araujo was assassinated while listening to a concert on a park bench in 1913. He was one of the first major coffee plantation owners in El Salvador, with estates in the Department of…https://t.co/xSWx8Wmbyc https://t.co/sIVM1c7wRP

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Emily Jordan Folger was born on May 15, 1858. With her husband Henry Folger she co-founded the #FolgerShakespeareLibrary. She earned her masters degree at Vassar in Shakespeare Studies. The Folger is a library, a theatre, and a mau…https://t.co/HrMgc158VA https://t.co/GNKwvMOpBi

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Emily Jordan Folger was born on May 15, 1858. With her husband Henry Folger she co-founded the #FolgerShakespeareLibrary. She earned her masters degree at Vassar in Shakespeare Studies. The Folger is a library, a theatre, and a mau…https://t.co/DCrfUQDcZt https://t.co/GNKwvN60sQ

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How did I celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday in 2022? Splurged on a first edition and a note inscribed by Henry Folger. https://t.co/0edEbOOjSX
#Shakespeare #Folger #Othello #FolgerLibrary #CollectingShakespeare #Folgers #folgerfinds #ShakespeareSunday #vintagebooks #rarebooks

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My g-grandfather, a CT Yankee wounded at Fort Wagner SC, after the War opened a jewelry store with a Confederate partner. Maj. Hiram Grant from Putnam CT lived 50+ years in Goldsboro NC. Fought for the North; fell in love with the…https://t.co/FHk39k5GOr https://t.co/xbTEef4MBn

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Book Launch at DACOR BACON HOUSE in Washington, DC in 2007 of the biography of Peter Strickland (1837–1921), New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, and first U.S. Consul to Senegal. Includes an 18-minute video. A “Diplomats and Di…https://t.co/oUs86U0TLF https://t.co/SK6TBZ3nII

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The DACOR BACON HOUSE in Washington, DC hosted in 2007 a reception celebrating the biography of Connecticut Yankee and sea captain Peter Strickland, first U.S. consul to Senegal. Rebecca Melvin called the book “a great new historic…https://t.co/Cx3QBzoCZ5 https://t.co/N1YvXdXNfF

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Intense excitement reigned when Guinean visitors discovered on the wall 75-year-old picture postcards of their country! Radio and TV journalists listened spell-bound as specialists interpreted what they were seeing. In 1991, the Fr…https://t.co/e4HafwfgC9 https://t.co/3Z3eLahR1E

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Early Salvadoran #Postcards––conceived, developed, and produced in San Salvador––has been called “the largest book on postcards ever printed.” This book launch video shows the interest and excitement generated by a cultural event i…https://t.co/6JSB32I6W4 https://t.co/wZH6HKc9DQ

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In 1999, a state-of-the-art coffee-table book of early Salvadoran postcards was launched in a lavish standing-room-only ceremony in a San Salvador Anthropology Museum. Listen to the author, the Salvadoran president of CONCULTURA, a…https://t.co/diGOyFYUSH https://t.co/Tmo0hB3Xoj

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My first blog post in this setting was released on July 15, 2020 and featured the President of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, who died at age 95 on December 20, 2001. This week we mark the 20th anniversary of his demise. This post…https://t.co/frSAA9ZSBy https://t.co/g4poM5F5Yv

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Henry Clay Folger and Emily Jordan Folger receive honorary Doctorate of Letters degrees from Amherst College, 1914, 1932. Henry Folger had climbed to the top of two vastly different fields: the petroleum industry and Shakespeare co…https://t.co/yWfzgVWNu1 https://t.co/yK4NgCGhea

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Enrico Massi, Italian aviator, 26, dies giving a flying lesson in El Salvador, 1923. His pupil, Juan Ramón Munés, became the first aviator in Central America to fly at the altitude of 4300 meters. For 20 years #Munés released flowe…https://t.co/QZVkBqWCC0 https://t.co/jcHJozAFAa

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From views along the Southern Pacific Railroad to postcards of #Shakespeare statues, this post features correspondence from Henry Folger to London booksellers. Note the oleaginous salesmanship laid on by rare book dealer Rosenbach in a 1927 letter to #Fol…https://t.co/dOAZjjy2Ht

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The story of #FolgersCoffee began in 1849 when teenager James A. Folger left #Nantucket on a steamer bound for California. During #COVID19, the author took a trip to San Francisco to look into the coffee side of the family. “The best part of waking up is…https://t.co/qUHOSYg8Ag

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While on business trips out west in 1910, Standard Oil Co. executive Henry Folger sends #postcards to his wife. He travels through Kentucky, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The postcards depict Henry Clay’s home, a herd of d…https://t.co/19bYa5aeBy https://t.co/5Fg35VV67p

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Tourists and scholars head to Saint-Omer, France to admire a recently discovered Shakespeare “First Folio.” Henry Folger didn’t have a chance for this one. But Henry tracked down and acquired 82 copies; they are all different in so…https://t.co/41wzpzd9OQ https://t.co/cV4dyje7bu

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#FLOTUS Grace Coolidge’s wardrobe steals the show. Grace and #Shakespeare collector Emily Jordan #Folger are two peas from the same pod.
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