Item 5 - Letter from G. E. Bentley to Sir Walter Greg

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GREG/1/5

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Letter from G. E. Bentley to Sir Walter Greg

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  • c. 29 Mar. 1956 (Creation)

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1 single sheet, neatly torn from a larger sheet

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Greg, Sir Walter Wilson (1875-1959), knight, literary scholar and bibliographer
(1875-1959)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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(Department of English, Princeton University.)—Is happy for the results of his own research to be included in Greg’s article (‘When was Twelfth Night?’).

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Dear Greg:

I have looked over the draft of your article {1} and it seems to me excellent. I shall, of course, be very happy for you to publish it with all the material about me. Someone may come up with a piece of private correspondence which seems to confirm him in his preference for January 5th, but I feel fairly confident that we are right in thinking that the 6th was the day for dramatic celebrations at Court.

With all best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
[Signed:] G E Bentley
G. E. Bentley

GEB/psh

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Typed, except the signature. Probably written at Princeton University.

{1} ‘When was Twelfth Night?’, published as the first of ‘Two Notes’ by Greg in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies presented to Frank Percy Wilson in Honour of his Seventieth Birthday (1959), pp. 59–62. For proofs of the article, dated 13 Feb. 1958, see Adv. c. 26. 21.

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      Pasted to the front of 1/6a.

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      papers-of-w-w-greg.pdf

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      Formerly inserted in Greg's copy of his and Boswell's edition of the Records of the Court of the Stationers’ Company, 1576 to 1602 (1930) (V. 11. 125).

      For proofs of the article mentioned in the letter see Adv. c. 26. 21.

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      This description was created by A. C. Green in 2020.

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