Baconian comment on Northumberland MS : This Document, It Is Contended, Strikes at the Heart of the "Stratfordian Myth" / Willard Parker, President Bacon Society of America.
1925
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Baconian comment on Northumberland MS : This Document, It Is Contended, Strikes at the Heart of the "Stratfordian Myth" / Willard Parker, President Bacon Society of America.
Variant title
To the Editor of the Public Ledger
Published
[United States?] : [Publisher not identified], [1925?]
Description
4 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Associated name
Parker, Willard, 1857- author.
Summary
Letter from Willard Parker, President of the Bacon Society of America, discussing the Northumberland Manuscript, a document discovered at Alnwick Castle in the nineteenth century containing several essays and speeches by Francis Bacon.
Note
"Reprinted from the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Sunday, May 10, 1925."
Bifolium.
Dealer's description (Folger copy): The text of Parker's long letter is reprinted in three columns on the recto of the second leaf. It begins: 'Sir - I have noted a dispatch, wirelessed from London, concerning the Northumberland Manuscript. this manuscript is well known to all Baconians, and, in fact, a complete facsimile copy of the entire document is in possession of the Bacon Society of America. Your correspondent is woefully wrong in regard to many things connected with it. [...]' The letter concludes: 'On one occasion, when I was scheduled to deliver an address on Shakespeare before a prominent institution of learning not a thousand miles from Philadelphia, I was told by the head of the institution: "You must not mention the Northumberland Manuscript. I am afraid of it."'
Bifolium.
Dealer's description (Folger copy): The text of Parker's long letter is reprinted in three columns on the recto of the second leaf. It begins: 'Sir - I have noted a dispatch, wirelessed from London, concerning the Northumberland Manuscript. this manuscript is well known to all Baconians, and, in fact, a complete facsimile copy of the entire document is in possession of the Bacon Society of America. Your correspondent is woefully wrong in regard to many things connected with it. [...]' The letter concludes: 'On one occasion, when I was scheduled to deliver an address on Shakespeare before a prominent institution of learning not a thousand miles from Philadelphia, I was told by the head of the institution: "You must not mention the Northumberland Manuscript. I am afraid of it."'
Source of acquisition
Richard M. Ford PO D8879.
Related item
Reprinted from: Public Ledger
Place of creation/publication
United States.
Item Details
Call number
Sh.Misc. 2271 (folio)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Albert H. and Shirley Small Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
Folger accession
269126