Autograph Letters Signed from George Greenwood, London, to G.W. Sandell, Esq


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Letter (1) is dated May 22, 1920, to an unidentified recipient, possibly G.W. Sandell, regarding the spelling of Shakespeare / Shakspere and notices of Greenwood's work, "Shakespere's Handwriting," in various publications. Letter addressed "Dear Sir." (2) Dated May 27, 1920, regarding the spelling traditions of Shakespeare / Shakspere and discussion of two bondsmen (one named Sandell) who "licens[ed] William Shagspere [sic] & Anne Hathwey to be married." Includes thanks for mailed newspaper cuttings containing a letter by Greenwood. Refers to his "Is there a Shakespeare problem." With sketch of a man and pencil notes on the verso of the second leaf; (3) Dated June 1, 1920 regarding the spelling traditions of the name Shakespeare and the accepted use of "Shakspere" by Furnivall, Knight, and Dowden.







Letters Signed to Sir George Greenwood from Various Correspondents


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(1) Typed letter from E.W. Smithson, 42, Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, dated 1 Jan. 1920. Refers to Greenwood's review of Mr. Robertson who seems to know "very little about Moliere or French literature" and goes on to discuss the limitations of the the "genius-argument in favour of Stratford rustic." (2) Typed letter from Quincy Ewing, Rector of Christ Churc, Fairlands Farm, Napoleonville, Louisiana, dated April 7, 1924. Ewing has read Is there a Shakespeare problem? and wonders if it's possible to obtain Greenwood's Shakespeare problem restated, despite it being out of print. Inquires after Greenwood's opinion of J. Thomas Looney's Shakespeare identified. (3) Autograph letter from Albert E. Hills, dated November 19, 1927 on letterhead of The Gables, Four Oaks, Warwickshire Thanks Greenwood for acknowledging his letter and explains his "stale information" about Ottocar on the fact that he has only read "The Shakespeare problem restated" and not "Is there a Shakespeare problem?" Refers also to Bacon's Essays, his Henry VII, and Pandosto as well. Includes a postscript "I much enjoy your proof, under Stratfordian logic, that Milton did not write Paradise Lost."




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The Waterloo Roll Call


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The Waterman Family


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Anne Thackeray Ritchie


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Peopled with literary figures such as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864-65 and 1878, an ample selection of her most interesting letters and a number of significant letters written to her. Because only a third of each journal has been previously published, this collection presents a valuable document of Ritchie's inner life, especially the account of her response to her father's death.