SHAKESPEARE FORGERIES
Harvard University has received ;i collection of tho Ireland forgeries, which appeared in tho eighteenth century, and purported to be papers uml letters of Shakespeare. They include X>ortions of Shakespeare's alleged correspondence with Quocn Elizabeth, the Earl of Southampton, tho Earl- of Leicester, and other persons of note, as well as signatures allegedly those of the great Elizabethan writer. Oddly enough, the Hanvard collection comes in part as a gift from Mr. Gordon Ireland, assistant professor of Latin-Aineri-can law. Tho fbrgor Ireland was a man of experience and ability in a work which required attention to details. He forged not only a love-let-ter to Anne Hathaway, but also a page or! manuscript from "Hamlet," which, if authentic, would be of inestimable value. The forgeries are in the original volumo in which they were bound by the author, who published them in 171)0 after an alleged "discovery" in his attic. A complete confession w;is published some time later', but papers were at first accepted as authontk.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 17
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167SHAKESPEARE FORGERIES Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 17
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