Item 27 - Letter from R. A. Foakes to Sir Walter Greg

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23, Crossgate Peth, Durham.—Offers to let him see the Introduction to his edition of Henslowe's Diary before it is printed.

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The Durham Colleges in the University of Durham
at 23, Crossgate Peth,
Durham
23 July 1958

Dear Sir Walter Greg,

A few years ago you kindly encouraged my collaborator, Mr Rickert, and myself, via Professor Allardyce Nicoll, in our proposal to re-edit Henslowe's Diary. We have now more or less completed the edition, and most of the typescript is with the Cambridge University Press. But I have held back the Introduction, so that you might have an opportunity of seeing it, should you wish to do so. As I am sure you would expect, we have a number of differences from you in readings in the Diary, and while most of them are not very significant, there is one point of some importance. In the list of names on f. 3, you read 'lame Charles alen', and a smudge makes these words appear so; but we think that a correct reading is 'same Charles alen', three separate persons, as the lines against each name, corresponding to the lines against each name in the adjacent column, show. These may be identified as Sam Rowley, Charles Massey and Richard Alleyn (not Edward, who is in the adjacent list). If this interpretation is correct, it has a bearing on the argument in your Dramatic Documents.

We wondered therefore if you would care to see the section of our Introduction where this reading is discussed; and, should you wish to make any comments, we would be glad to include them in the edition under your name.

We also wondered if you would permit us to dedicate our edition to you, as a testimony of the great debt we owe to your work.

Yours sincerely,
R. A. Foakes

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Typed, except the signature.

Formerly inserted in a volume containing Greg’s copies of Part I of his edition of Henslowe's Diary (1904) and his edition of the Henslowe Papers (1907) (V. 14. 47).

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