"MR W.H."

Northern Advocate, 4 February 1928, Page 9

"MR W.H."

SHAKESPEARE ’S «®NETS. •• -

SOLUTION OP A MYSTERY.

'-'v-OJa .. , (Received 10.30 a.m.) ~( LONDON, February 3. The discovery is announced by the ‘‘ Daily Telegraph ’ ’ of ! the'ihanuseript of a eommonplpcp book lifcapfy to solve the age-long mystery of tp£ identity of Mr. W. H.,to wh6m"Shakespeare’s sonnets, were..ydeskatddy;JS§r Thpmas Thorpe, the publisher and welJ-known bibliophile, Mr Edmund Bung, who came into possessiouj-pf the book, sent it to America for examination by the most erucUte universities.. ■ ■; . - ud,:. “The book,’’ says thp Teje*,. graph;’’ ‘‘is indubitably f iitnht of Wil-» liara Holgate>- of ft *: wealthy innkeeper of the Bose and Crewh at- Saffron Wafdeni - '- v -j(|ylt .is v known that Shakespeare and his travelling company visited the town in 1007,■ two years (bfforpsiliw^hdication. :o£ the-ihiiriets. These l -RihbfeslSd will study , ; 'SQU^ets' 10^';'4j^1^^q ( The bOy’s interest ; -in- was proved by his copying; favoutite sonnets, as well .as current: ! to Shakespeare Weltidihg a let-, ter, ‘ revealed' .for .the" hrst yfram, , Francis Bp§.umpnt to;;Ben JcfhhSfin, in. which -Shakespeare is proelaibiecf as a deathless genius.’’—A. and N.Z.