Editing Folger Shakespeare Library (section)

====Manuscripts====
The Folger holds some 60,000 [[manuscript]]s (from [[Elizabeth I]] and [[John Donne]] to [[Mark Twain]] and [[Walt Whitman]]).<ref>[[Heather Wolfe|Wolfe, Heather]] (ed. and compiler), ''"The Pen's Excellencie": Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library,"'' Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library (distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle), 2002, p. 10 for total number; pp. 51, 151, 183, and 196 for Elizabeth I, Donne, Twain, and Whitman.</ref> These handwritten documents date from the 15th to the 21st century and cover a variety of subjects: documents related to performance history and literature, personal correspondences, wills, love letters, and other materials of daily life. Notable manuscripts include the [[Macro Manuscript|earliest known staging diagram]] in England, a list of quotations [[George Eliot]] compiled while writing ''[[Middlemarch]]'', the 18th-century Shakespeare forgeries of [[William Henry Ireland]], and the papers of legendary 18th-century actor [[David Garrick]].

The Folger hosts Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO), an [[Institute of Museum and Library Services|IMLS]]-grant funded project to digitize and transcribe English manuscripts from the 16th and 17th centuries in a freely available digital collection. EMMO holds conferences, [[paleography]] classes, "transcrib-athons", and other events at the Folger and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://collation.folger.edu/2013/11/emmo-early-modern-manuscripts-online/ |title=EMMO: Early Modern Manuscripts Online |last1=Wolfe |first1=Heather |date=26 November 2013 |website=The Collation |publisher=Folger Shakespeare Library |access-date=18 August 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905232617/http://collation.folger.edu/2013/11/emmo-early-modern-manuscripts-online/ |archive-date=5 September 2015 }}</ref>