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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.

Sent on to Wright by Edward Maunde Thompson

Several of the letters refer to Thompson's British Museum colleague T. N. Nichols' investigations into the shorthand alleged by William Squire to have been written by Cromwell. 60/248 is a letter from Nichols to Thompson, 11 Feb 1886, sent on by Thompson to Wright on 12 Feb 1886.

Pall Mall - WW 'should be informed of an event that agitates the literary world. Squires [William Squire] has arrived in town'. Squires is the descendant of Oliver Cromwell and did do the absurd things Carlyle [Thomas Carlyle] says he did.