Letters of Ignatius Donnelly [manuscript] 1888-1900.

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Letters of Ignatius Donnelly [manuscript] 1888-1900.

In letters, 1899 June 26 and Oct. 23, Hastings (Minn.) to William Henry Burr, Washington, D.C., Donnelly discusses his book "The cipher in the plays and on the tombstone" and Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare, Greene, and Marlowe plays, and mentions the Rosicrucian Society, and the Freemasons. In a letter, 1888 Feb. 6, Hastings (Minn.) to an unidentified correspondent he recommends books on Shakespeare and Bacon by James Appleton Morgan and Constance Mary Fearon Pott.

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