Author: John Payne Collier

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781230011387

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...altered the sum to 1500. We know that the Blackfriars' Theatre was in use as a private place of dramatic entertainment long afterwards; and it is to be concluded that the treaty for the purchase of it, either by the Crown or by the City of London, was broken off. The copy of a letter signed H. S. (supposed to represent the initials of Henry Earl of Southampton) has attracted more attention than, perhaps, any of the other documents discovered in the same depository. It introduced, or has been supposed to have introduced, Shakespeare and Burbadge to the first Lord Ellesmere, then Lord Chancellor; but it is not necessary that I should further describe a paper, which has been at least thrice printed by myself, and which has been inserted in every recent Life of our great Dramatist. As it was in my possession, and had been so for some years, I produced it at a meeting of the Council of the Shakespeare Society about the year 1843 or 1844. I forget what individual members were present, but the authenticity of it seemed generally admitted, and I afterwards had a facsimile of it made by Mr. Netherclift, senior. I put him under no restriction as to showing "the H. S. Letter" to anybody; and when he redelivered it to me, I asked him his opinion of it, knowing that he had paid great attention to the modes of writing at the period of its supposed date: his answer was in these words, -" If at any time you happen to want a witness that it is a genuine document, I will be that witness." He subsequently (I cannot fix the precise date) lithographed in facsimile the other documents I discovered at Bridgewater House. A few weeks since I replaced the whole of them in his hands, and, after looking over them, he acknowledged...

Download or read book Collier's Reply to Mr. N. E. S. A. Hamilton's Inquiry Into the Imputed Shakespeare Forgeries written by John Payne Collier and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...altered the sum to 1500. We know that the Blackfriars' Theatre was in use as a private place of dramatic entertainment long afterwards; and it is to be concluded that the treaty for the purchase of it, either by the Crown or by the City of London, was broken off. The copy of a letter signed H. S. (supposed to represent the initials of Henry Earl of Southampton) has attracted more attention than, perhaps, any of the other documents discovered in the same depository. It introduced, or has been supposed to have introduced, Shakespeare and Burbadge to the first Lord Ellesmere, then Lord Chancellor; but it is not necessary that I should further describe a paper, which has been at least thrice printed by myself, and which has been inserted in every recent Life of our great Dramatist. As it was in my possession, and had been so for some years, I produced it at a meeting of the Council of the Shakespeare Society about the year 1843 or 1844. I forget what individual members were present, but the authenticity of it seemed generally admitted, and I afterwards had a facsimile of it made by Mr. Netherclift, senior. I put him under no restriction as to showing "the H. S. Letter" to anybody; and when he redelivered it to me, I asked him his opinion of it, knowing that he had paid great attention to the modes of writing at the period of its supposed date: his answer was in these words, -" If at any time you happen to want a witness that it is a genuine document, I will be that witness." He subsequently (I cannot fix the precise date) lithographed in facsimile the other documents I discovered at Bridgewater House. A few weeks since I replaced the whole of them in his hands, and, after looking over them, he acknowledged...