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Founded by Furnivall in 1864, the aim of the Early English Text Society was to bring attention to previously unprinted early literature through its publication scheme and to provide source material for the Philological Society's New English Dictionary (later the Oxford English a Dictionary)

Papers and correspondence in response to Furnivall's circular 'Sculls or oars. Maurice Rowing Club. To the scullers, present and future, of the club,' 12 October 1886, in which he stated his belief that sculling was superior as a sport to rowing, includes: letters to Furnivall from Edmund Warre, headmaster of Eton College and George Wirgman Hemming; newspaper cuttings from Oxford and Cambridge papers criticising Furnivall's opinions. 21 items

Letters, postcards, notes and transcripts relating to the subject and content of manuscripts for possible future publication, notably from Edmund Brock, Henry Octavius Coxe, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Gordon Hall Gerould, Henry Hucks Gibbs, William Carew Hazlitt, Carl Horstmann, Jean Jules Jusserand, Joseph Rawson Lumby, Frederic David Matthew, Arthur Sampson Napier, George Parker, George Gresley Perry, Richard Sims, Henry Paine Stokes, James R Thursfield and William Aldis Wright. 45 items plus enclosures

Formed in 1881 by Furnivall and Emily Hickey (with the reluctant consent of the poet), the aim of the Browning Society was to promote the works of Robert Browning through publications and staging performances of his plays. Membership fell sharply after the poet's death in 1889 and the Society formally ceased to operate in 1891. However it still met informally in member's houses at least until 1893

Founded by Furnivall in 1886, the primary aim of the Shelley Society was to publish exact but inexpensive facsimiles of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Alongside these facsimiles were to be reprinted notices and criticisms of the poet's works from lesser known or obscure published sources. The Society staged the first public performance of 'Cenci' in 1886 which attracted many subscribers, however by the next year membership began to dwindle. Increasingly in debt, the Shelley Society closed in 1892

Papers and correspondence relating to Furnivall's family, his inheritance and the family home, Great Fosters House, Egham, including: three printed copies of Furnivall's father George Frederick Furnivall's will and codicil, 1865; letter to Furnivall from his brother Charles concerning mortgage arrangements on Great Fosters House, 15 Nov 1865; printed acrostic paying tribute to the cycling achievements of Furnivall's son Percival, 1886; letter to Furnivall from his cousin Joseph Furnivall regarding the genealogy of the Sandbach branch of the Furnivall family, 20 Dec 1904; undated notes by Furnivall relating to genealogy, taken from William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire; letter regarding the 100th birthday of Furnivall's sister Selina, 8 Apr 1926. 14 items

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Letters and papers to Furnivall from Percy Zillwood Round regarding corrections to the text of publications issued by the Shakspere Society principally Some 300 Fresh Allusions to Shakspere from 1594 to 1694 AD (London: Trubner & Co, 1886). Includes letter from Peter Augustin Daniel praising Round's editorial skills. 3 items plus enclosures

Founded by Furnivall in 1868, the Chaucer Society's aim was to publish the unprinted manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's works for scholars to demonstrate how they varied from the well known printed versions. The Society dissolved in 1912

Papers by Furnivall 'On Puck's "Swifter than the moon's sphere" and Shakspere's Astronomy' and 'On Chester's Love's Martyr: Essex is not the turtle-dove of Shakspere's Phoenix and Turtle', read before the New Shakspere Society, 14 Nov 1879.

Papers by Frank Jewett Mather 'On the asserted meeting of Chaucer and Petrarch' and 'An inedited document concerning Chaucer's first Italian journey.' 2 items

The Working Men's College Rowing Club was founded in 1860 and relaunched in 1879 as the Maurice Rowing Club (in memory of Frederick Denison Maurice, the first principal of the Working Men's College). The club eventually folded in 1894 due to difficulties in achieving recognition from established rowing clubs. The Hammersmith Girls Sculling Club (later the Furnivall Sculling Club) was founded in 1896 by Furnivall to promote the sport of sculling amongst working class women and was the first all women rowing/sculling club.

Paper by Henry Sweet 'Shelley's nature poetry', read before the Shelley Society, 9 May 1888.