Opening Spenser’s Tomb
SURVEY TO ASCERTAIN LOCATION. United Press Association.—Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 2. After activity at Westminster Abbey throughout the night, it is officially announced that it was only one of a series of preliminary surveys to ascertain the location of Spenser’s tomb. Tho date of opening of the tomb has not been fixed. A cable message on October 22nd stated that “The Times” reports that the authorities at Westminster Abbey are co-operating in a proposal for opening the tomb of Edmund Spenser. There will be no disturbance of the coffin, but a search "will be made for the “Mournful Elegies and Poems” which, according to Camden’s account of the poet’s funeral in 1599, were thrown, with the pens., that wrote them, into the tomb by fellow poets. It is conjectured that Shakespeare was among those present, and the chief interest attaching to the proposed in vestigation is the possibility that a hitherto unseen poem of his may be discovered.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 262, 4 November 1938, Page 6
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