Various locks of human hair

Description

Various locks of human hair attached to papers. One paper has signatures in the manner of the Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland (1777-1835).

1 - 'Shakespeare aged 16 and the year of his death'
3 - 'The hair of Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare on her deathe'
5 - 'The hair of Pembroke agee 20 of years'
6 - 'The hair of Drayton when a boy'
7 - 'Lock of John Harvard the founder of Harvard'

A once folded piece of paper with locks of hair said to be from Elizabeth Barnard, John Rodgers and two others.

Two of the objects were once enclosed in the covers of letters addressed to Mr. Edward Cotterall, Attorney-at-law, Campden, Gloucestershire, and are postmarked 1794. In several cases the packets carry a signature which is possibly that of the historian and Shakespeare scholar J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.