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Add. MS c/111/14
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Letter from A. R. Forsyth to William Aldis Wright
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- 18 Dec. 1901 (Creation)
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7 pp.
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Removed from Wright's copy of Francis Bacon's Franciscj de Verulamio, summi Angliæ cancellarij instauratio magna (Londini, 1620), shelfmark VI.4.28.
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Examines Elizabeth Wells Gallup's biliteral cipher theory, which she claimed was proof of Bacon's authorship of the works of Shakespeare.
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- Forsyth, Andrew Russell (1858-1942), mathematician (Subject)
- Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar (Subject)
- Gallup, Elizabeth Wells (1848-1934) educator (Subject)
- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626), 1st Viscount St Alban, Lord Chancellor, politician and philosopher (Subject)
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), playwright and poet (Subject)