VALUABLE MANUSCRIPT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 10

VALUABLE MANUSCRIPT

SHAKESPEARE’S HANDWRITING. DISCOVERED IN BRITISH MUSEUM. Ptm* Association —By Telegraph—Copyrigst LONDON, October 19. Hitherto the only specimens of Shakespeare’s handwriting that have been discovered are six signatures. It is now affirmed that 147 lines of manuscript which have lain in the British Museum for 209 years are in Shakespeare’s writing. These lines are an addition to a play by Anthony Munday on the life of Sir Thomas More, which had been corrected by various hands. Arguments and conclusions in favour of the theory appear in papers by five scholars, including Mr A. W. Pollard and Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, which are published in the Cambridge University Press, v The Daily Express points out that this manuscript is the most valuable in the world, and it cannot be bought by Americans unless they buy the. British Museum.— A. and N.Z. Cable. Mr A. W. Pollard is the Keeper of the Printed Books in the British Museum. Sir Edward Maunde Thompson was formerly Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum.