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Letter addressed to 'The Editors of the Cambridge Shakespeare'. Notes on Much Ado about Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, All's Well That End's Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello(, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline*.

With MS annotations.

Headed 'Notes, etc, for Cambridge Shakespeare'.

Letters, from both scholars and members of the public regarding W. Aldis Wright's editions of Shakespeare (including collaborations with W. G. Clark) as well as notes on the texts and suggested emendations. Some letters without stated addressee may have been written to W. G. Clark.

Letters and notes regarding 'The Squire Papers': papers, including copies of letters said to have been by Oliver Cromwell, sent by William Squire of Great Yarmouth to Thomas Carlyle, and published by him as authentic. Aldis Wright published an account of Carlyle's dealings with Squire, with many quotations from the supposed Cromwell letters, in 1886.

Notes on Shakespeare by W. Aldis Wright, Sir Philip Perring, Albert Matthews, George Parker, H. P. Stokes, Eduard Thiessen and G. O. Wray. Printed reply by Edward H. Pickersgill to a paper by James Spedding, interleaved with Spedding's MS comments.

Letters (some of those without stated address perhaps originally sent to W. G. Clark) including correspondence from P. A. Daniel, W. G. Fletcher, F. J. Furnivall, R. Markham Hill, C. M. Ingleby; also some draft letters from W. Aldis Wright to various correspondents.