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The Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford.—Discusses Greg’s edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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The Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon
19. V. 1910.

My dear Greg,

It was very good of you to send me your edition of the 1602 Merry Wives, and I am sure that I shall profit by the study of your Introduction & Notes.

As I read the Introduction I was horrified to find on p. XVI “The second is the late H. C. Hart.” So poor Hart is dead. This is news to me, and very sad news. I see the “Athenæum” every week but usually fling it into the waste-paper basket after carelessly glancing at it; so I miss notices of the death of friends. Hart used to talk about a Ben Jonson “Glossary,” on which he had been engaged intermittently; and I wonder in what shape he left it. His death is a loss.

Your account of the reporting of “John Bull’s Other Island” is very much to the point; and your suggestion that the actor who played the Host of the Garter may have helped the reporter of “Merry Wives” seems quite reasonable.

It may be uncritical, but however often I were to print Shakespeare I should always incorporate passages from the 1602 4to. in the Folio text. I can’t see the objection of tacking “I will retort the sum in equipage” on to “Why, then the world’s mine oyster, / Which I with sword will open,” if one puts a full stop and a dash after “open.” The renewed request gives more point to Falstaff’s renewed refusal “Not a penny.”

“Cride-game” is a terrible teazer. Hart’s reference to bears seems to me far too peregrinate. What the deuce have bears to do with feasting at a farm house? “Cried I aim?” at any rate gives sense and “Cride-game” is meaningless[.]

I shall go closely through your edition, and I thank you for so kindly remembering me.

Yours sincerely
A. H. Bullen

Longmans, Green, & Co., 6 & 7 Clifford Street, London, W.1.—They cite a review of V. L. Griffith's Experiments in Education.

Candid photograph of Trevelyan in a chair on a patio. Dated on verso.

25 Newton Road, Oxford. - 'I am much indebted to you for calling my attention to your article... to the goldsmiths Samuel Urlin, father and son'.

Includes account, 31 Mar. 1940, of Brooke's appointment by his uncle as raja muda of Sarawak, his marriage, and his subsequent loss of title.

Kings College, Cambridge. - Thanks Gow for his article.

Trinity College. 'In connection with the Iynx passage...'

Largely drawn from Fitzgerald's letters, with dates.

Includes notes on Heinrich Ritter's History of Ancient Philosophy, George Grote's History of Greece, a draft of a paper given on "The Accentuation of Ancient Greek" dated Nov. 12, 1860, as well as a translation of Act I of Goethe's "Götz von Berlichingen".

On the spine is stamped ‘M.S. Poetry of the 18th Century’. For the contents see the separate descriptions.

Miscellaneous ms notes etc.

Printed letter enclosing a copy of a circular letter from Lord Ullswater, the Chairman of the University of Cambridge Commissioners, and announcing a series of meetings on Saturday afternoons during the present term relating to the recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission.

Letters dated 30 Jan 1906 and 3 April 1908.

Note in pencil [in Nora Sidgwick's hand?]: 'By Henry Sidgwick according to [J] St Loe Strachey'.

A review of the 'Fasti' by W. Rennie in the 'Glasgow Herald' of 10 July 1930 (Item 10), and another a photograph of the first day of excavation of the Circus Maximus in Rome, from 'The Times', 21 Apr., 1928 (Item 11).

Two small notebooks with scene revisions in Shaffer's hand, extensively revised. One notebook consists of Pizarro's dialogue with De Soto.

Chelsea.

Letters dated 15 Feb. [18--] - 27 Sept. [18--] from Greenwich Park.

Two letters.

Two letters concerning research into W. H. Thompson's ancestors.