Edward Conway and the Post-1615 Shakespeare Quarto-Collecting Route

Topic: Edward Conway and the Post-1615 Shakespeare Quarto-Collecting Route

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The Milton/Second Folio packet records the Conway route only as a lead, not as a developed packet.
• TWITTER_BOOK_ADDITIONS.md states that a 1621 letter from Henry Neville's son to Edward Conway is used as a possible route from the Neville family into a household later associated with Shakespeare quarto collecting and the Donne world.
• The packet currently lacks direct letter extraction and direct Conway-library/quarto provenance sources.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• Ken's First Folio material says there are letters from Henry Neville's son to Edward Conway and that the relevant Conway son apparently had a large collection of Shakespeare quartos.
• Ken's John Donne material links Conways, Egertons, Donne-family patrons, and Shakespeare quarto ownership as part of a wider post-Folio reception-history problem.
• This is a provenance/transmission lead, not a proved line of custody.

3. Quoted Source Text

Local Twitter / synthesis layer

• "We have letters from Henry Neville's son to Edward Conway."
• "I believe this one is to the son who apparently had a large collection of Shakespeare Quartos."
• "A 1621 letter from Henry Neville's son to Conway points toward the Conway family"

4. Citations

• Feinstein, Ken. Local Twitter material preserved in twitter_First_Folio.md and twitter_John_Donne.md.
• TWITTER_BOOK_ADDITIONS.md, Finding 34.
• Smith, Daniel Starza. John Donne and the Conway Papers: Patronage and Manuscript Circulation in the Early Seventeenth Century. Cited in top_books_and_articles.md.

5. Notes on Access

• This packet is intentionally lead-level. Its next step is not prose writing; it is document retrieval.
• If hardened, this could become a useful post-1615 transmission packet linking Neville descendants, Conway papers, Donne reception, and Shakespeare quarto ownership.