Pièce 5 - Letter from W. G. Stone to W. Aldis Wright

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Shute Haye, Walditch, Bridport, Dorset.—Sends a copy of Boyle’s paper on Henry VIII, V. iv. 32, and comments on related notes in the Variorum edition. An advertisement in The Post Boy indicates that Lintot’s edition of Shakespeare’s poems must have been published in 1711.

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Shute Haye, Walditch, Bridport, Dorset
March 15 1885 {1}

My dear Sir,

Hen. VIII. V. iv. 32 (Camb. Sh.).

You may not have seen Boyle’s paper on Hen. VIII., so I send you a cutting from it which bears on the passage referred to above {2}. Some time ago I found that the lines which Collins quoted (Var. Sh. 1821, xix. 485, note) in support of what, I suppose, is the sense usually attached to ‘tool’ in the mod. edd., are not accurately given, nor do they in their original form, it seems to me, support Tollet’s note (ibid.). They occur in The Two Noble Kinsmen, III. v.

Camb. Sh. vol. IX, p. xvii. See the advertisement at the back of The Post Boy {2}. Lintott’s {3} ed. must have been published in 1711, N.S. 1710 is the O.S. date.

Very truly yours
W G Stone

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This letter was almost certainly directed to Aldis Wright, though his name is not mentioned.

{1} The first three figures of the year are printed.

{2} Add. MS b. 74/7.

{3} Add. MS b. 74/4/6.

{4} Written above ‘Gildon’s’, struck through.

Sent with Add. MS b. 74/4/6-7.

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