Autograph poems and notes of Thomas Bailey Aldrich [manuscript], [19th-20th century].

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Autograph poems and notes of Thomas Bailey Aldrich [manuscript], [19th-20th century].

Poems by Aldrich on topics such as Shakespeare and the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. (1) entitled "Problem," with first line "So closely knit are mind and brain." (2) entitled "Ellen Terry in The merchant of Venice," with first line "As thus she lives and moves upon the scene." (3) entitled "At Stratford-upon-Avon," with first line "Thus spoke his dust (so seemed it as I read" (4) entitled "Book and seasons," with first line "Because the sky is blue because blithe May" (5) entitled "Guilie[l]mus Rex," with first line "The folk who lived in Shakespeare's day" (6) entitled "The Shakespeare-Bacon idiocy" with first line "So Bacon wrote our Shakespeare's plays."

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