Autograph letter signed from J. Thomas Looney, Gateshead-on-Tyne, to Sir George Greenwood, London [manuscript], 1922 March 14.

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Autograph letter signed from J. Thomas Looney, Gateshead-on-Tyne, to Sir George Greenwood, London [manuscript], 1922 March 14.

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Letter refers to Edwin "Reed's anxiety to make a case for Bacon" and Reed's arguments concerning the folio Richard III and emendations in the 1622 quarto. Looney further thanks Greenwood for drawing his attention to Spedding and Dugdale on Henry VIII and states his own belief that the work is not entirely that of Shakespeare. He quotes lines from Act III, scene 2 of that play ("I know her for/ A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to/Our cause..."). A pencil annotation next to these lines reads "Fletcher." Letter written from 33 Linden Gardens, London.

2 leaves ; 26 x 21 cm.

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