DR- M'ARTHUR AND SHAKESPEARE.
' STRATFORD-ON-AVON VISITED. •'" •/In a letter, to,.a friend in Wellington, Dr.' A.' M'Arthur, S.M., stated that: ho and, Mrs. M'Arthur ,were .then (July -28) : about to leave. Weybridge for. London, preparatory to unaertakjng.the'trip to Scotland. . Stratford-on'-Avon was visited by llr. 'M'Arthur, who iound much to interest him in the home of Shakespeare's The old home is. kept up: by the Stratford-on-Avon'Council, and con tains very many.relics of the.Avon poet. "I; saw. Ann :iiathaway's..cottage," -the ■letter says, "also .the bed bequeathed'to her by .'Shakespeare .. . . . and' the settee- on which lie and she.used ,to.sit. Also the church in wnich. is thts nigistrj of his birth and burial, and beneath the floor of which he. is buried. : lt is-an: old 'restored edifice. . Another, place I, saw .was' Marie Corelli's home, a "very/ nice, modern house, standing in good grounds, with.tine gardens and flowers. Tne town, is very quaint, streets crooked and' narrow, but very dean., Tlie cabs look as if. they were relics of the Bard's time, but ; the drivers are up to date in the way of fares.". At the time the letter was written "Mrs.; M'Arthur was slowly regaining good health. ..'■'. ■"•'■-.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 915, 7 September 1910, Page 4
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