Letters to Paul Benjamin Bertram from various correspondents [manuscript], 1965-1981.

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Letters to Paul Benjamin Bertram from various correspondents [manuscript], 1965-1981.

Correspondents: George Wilson Knight and G.B. Harrison. (1) Photocopy of an autograph letter signed from George Wilson Knight, Exeter, to Paul Benjamin Bertram, New Brunswick, New Jersey, dated December 2, 1965. Regarding Knight's work on Henry VIII, his Byron and Shakespeare, his Sound Seminars, and his brother's Roman Vergil, and Bertram's work on Two noble kingsman. (2) Autograph letter signed from Harrison, Palmerston North, New Zealand, to Bertram, New Brunswick, New Jersey, dated 27 November 1981. Discusses Bertram's White Spaces in Shakespeare and the Penguin Shakespeare editions.

2 items ; 28 x 22 to 30 x 22 cm.

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