Heather Wolfe is the Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and the one everyone turns to find out whether a long lost manuscript is authentic. Heather talks about her work and reveals surprising details about ghost stories, swiftly changing technologies, ink recipes, where quill pens come from, what might actually have happened to Shakespeare’s first drafts, the incredible usefulness of hard insect excretions, and the importance of paleography without tears. (Length 20:35)