Thanks for his congratulations on his preferment to a Deanery of St Pauls, has resigned the Regius Chair of Divinity at Oxford
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
Windsor - to marry Mary Glynne
36 Berkeley Square. - Requests return of poems, which she must publish soon.
Containing tributes to the late Lord Houghton and Archbishop Trench.
1 Portsmouth St., Lin[coln's] Inn Fields W.C. - Was a competitor in the Burns Centenary competition; can Houghton assist hihm to better employment in the Newspaper Press Fund; currently clerk and collector to Mr. Crooks.
6 Alfred Place, Blackfriars. - Knows the Howitts, W. S. Landor, Macready and Freiligrath; has no means to support his invalid wife, though has been helped by Disraeli and Peel; gave up tutorship in classics last year to edit a 'new London Weekly Newspaper' which made him ill with over-work and failed; is ineligible for Literary Fund aid as he has not yet published anything independently; poems contributed to Howitt's Journal have been published in America but are delayed here owing to depression of the times; will resume teaching but needs funds; encloses letters [return requested]. Mr Howitt has been ruined by a literary speculation.
Huish, Devon. - Part of beginning of letter missing. Encouraged by Houghton's support of David Gray; has been writing since the age of 10; is now 49 and has published three volumes; some details missing; had hoped to promote a final publication by success in the Calderon competition; what were the shortcomings of his entry? Disappointed that no prizes were awarded; time allowed was too short, especially for a clergyman during Lent.
Correspondence, agenda, meeting notes, reports, and other relevant papers dealing with the establishment of the working party and the subsequent Phillips Judicial Inquiry
'ACTA Paper Copy Plates and Path. Soc. Meeting Map' 1959
'Students Cancer Lecture Surgical Clinical Course. Monkey, Maps and Burkitt's cases' Dec. 1962
'Path. Soc. Meeting, London. Plates for dem. Captions. Localisation by electron microscopy of ATPase in normal and herpes-infected HeLa cells' Jan. 1963
'Reversal of kodachrome for NGI Monography' 1964
Founder Day Titles, 1964
'Diagram of Cell - Sci. Amer.'
Returns with thanks the 'very good Inscription' [for the memorial to Henry Hallam in St. Paul's Cathedral].
'The royal family of England, the crowned heads of Europe, statesmen, bishops, soldiers, and other distinguished personages of all nations'.