SHAKESPEARE'S MSS.
They are on the wrong track when they attempt to dig up graves to prove the authorship of William Shakespeare's works, John Howell, noted book collector and Baconian authority, said at San Francisco recently, reports the "New York Times." The secret, said Mr. Howell, lies deep in the ground of Chepstow Castle, 150 miles south-east of London, where Sir Francis Bacon and his friends buried their manuscripts 313 years ago. Students recently investigated around the tomb of Edmund Spenser in Westminster Abbey to see whether any handwritten elegies could be found to provide a clue in the Shakespearean controversy. Mr. Howell said that Bacon and his friends had buried sixty-six lead-lined cedar chests filled with their manuscripts at Chepstow. This was referred to, he said, in a volume known as "The Arcadia," published in 1638. He declared that many of the objects referred to in the book had been located, but not the chests.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 5
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