Papers of Charles Allen [manuscript], ca. 1900-ca. 1910.

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Papers of Charles Allen [manuscript], ca. 1900-ca. 1910.

Contents: 2 essays ("Shakespeare's audiences" (23 p.) and "Contemporary opinion as to Shakespeare's authorship" (32 p.) possibly a draft for a chapter in his "Notes on the Bacon-Shakespeare question," 1900); and 3 letters (2 drafts from Allen to Emerson Venable and Appleton Morgan, 1905-1907, and a typescript letter signed to Allen from H.B. Sanborn of Concord, Mass., January 5, 1902).

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