Autograph copies of Vortigern in the hand of Mrs. Freeman and Anna Maria Ireland [manuscript], ca. 1795.

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Autograph copies of Vortigern in the hand of Mrs. Freeman and Anna Maria Ireland [manuscript], ca. 1795.

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Play by W.H. Ireland who claimed that it was the work of William Shakespeare. The first transcript, in the autograph of Mrs. Freeman, the Ireland family housekeeper and mother of W.H. Ireland, has a number of changes and additions which suggest use in the staging of the play, April 2, 1796. The 2nd transcript is by Anna Maria Ireland. Followed by transcripts of spurious letters of Shakespeare and William Holmes, a printer, one dated 1604. Note on leaf 1 in W.H. Ireland's autograph.

217 leaves.

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