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SHAKESPEARE’S WRITING OLD MANUSCRIFT IN BRITISH MUSEUM. “MOST VALUABLE IN WORLD.” By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. and N.Z. Cable Association (Received October 10, 0.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 10. Hitherto the only specimens of Shakespeare’s handwriting known have been six signatures. It is now affirmed that 147 lines of a manuscript which has lain in the British Museum tor 200 yeare are Shakespeare's writing. The lines arc an addition to a ploy by Anthony Munday ‘‘The Life of Sir Thomas Moore.’’ which has been cor-rected-by various hands. Arguments and conclusions favouring the theory appear in papers written by five scholars, including Dr. A. W. Pollard, and Sir Edward Maunde Thompson published by the Cambridge University Press. The “Daily Express” points out that the manuscript is the most valuable in the world, and that it cannot be bought by the Americans, unless they buy tho British Museum.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 5
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