Talk:Collection size

Manuscripts in finding aids

As of December 13, 2017, there are 50,488 items accounted for in finding aids for the manuscript collection. Not all are "manuscripts" as such (e.g. Halliwell-Phillipps Boxes are largely clippings), but all have call numbers in the manuscript collection.

Brief name	Item count	Notes
Bacon, Nathaniel	51
Bacon-Townshend	1036
Bagot	1076
Bennet	209
Booth	28
Burton	217
Cavendish-Talbot	203
conquestu	19
Dering	21
Warrants	27
Este	30
Ferrers	1225
Goodricke	39
Helsby	23
More	712
Newdigate	3950
Nichols	5952
V.b.303	114	Need to add item count to Folgerpedia Finding aids article
Privy Council	58
Rattray	194
Rich	231
Smith	8
Strozzi	200
Tonson	83
Williams	1058
Delia Bacon	323
Edwin Booth	534
Collier W.b.502-503	152
Collier Y.d.341	172
Collier Y.d.582	48
Coller Y.c.1055	224
Coller Y.d.6	231
Daly	10923	Need to add item count to Folgerpedia Finding aids article
Drury Lane and Covent Garden	282
Playbills	0	Omitted from count because they're already included in "approx. 250,000 playbills")
German	44	That is, 1/4 of 175 items, since finding aid says 3/4 of them are described in the Daly collection, counted separately
H-P Boxes	11570
Henderson	600	Just the manuscripts, not the playbills and art
Hodges	0	Counted as art
Kean	299
Leo	650
North	38
Siddons	26
Stratford & Warwickshire	0	Compilation of items described elsewhere
Walters	2011
Winter Y.c.1825	221
Winter Y.c.573	114
Winter-Young Series 1	3214
Winter-Young Series 2	152
Winter-Young Series 3	139
Winter-Young Series 4	77
Winter-Young Series 5	65
Winter-Young Series 6	195
Winter-Young Series 7	24
Winter-Young Series 8	1295
Winter-Young Series 9	101

Collections not accounted for in finding aids or at item-level in Hamnet

Total: 2918 items

Brief name	Item count	Notes
Fish	96
Lada-Mokarski	641
Ball folders	138
Ball cards	1500
Scrapbooks	543	doesn't include scrapbooks with acc. nos.; each physical box or vol. counted as "one"
Old Folger archives	?
New Folger archives	?
Lynn Redgrave	?
Programs	?