To and from Nieves Hayat de Madariaga

Shakespeare and Bacon

I'm much obliged to Mrs. Beatrice Cazac for sending me her mother's letters  and for permission to reproduce them. My grateful thanks to Dr. Andrew Lamb for checking and proof-reading my transcripts, and for his most valuable suggestions.

101. 2 September 1996 [ES] (Bad Quartos; University Wits; Honigmann; little Latin; various topics)
102. 15 September 1996 [NM] (Shakespeare spellings; King John anti-Pope)
103. 22 September 1996 [ES] (DNA; poems and songs; King John; Sonnets)
104. 17 October 1996 [NM] (Southampton as the Friend; Sonnets; eternity=procreation)
105. 17 October 1996 [ES] (Nye; Leopardi; Rowse; Dark Lady; Honours, ecc.)
106. 21 October 1996 [ES] (Gabriel Ronay and TLS; Leopardi; Rowse; manuscripts, compositors, copyists; Honigmann; eternity)
107. 16 November 1996 [NM] (Bacon's application for investiture; Shakespeare spellings; St. Albans mural)
108. 6 January 1997 [NM] (Together in TLS; insane scholars and methodology)
109. 8 January 1997 (Hamilton's death; Edward III reviews; musico- and Shakespearology)
110. 8 January 1997 [ES] (Hamilton's death; Edward III reviews; musico- and Shakespearology)
111. 13 January 1997 [ES] (Honour system; MRA; Sonnets begetter; comparative works; MRA)
112. 17 January 1997 [ES] (The Weakest goeth to the Wall; Romeo and Juliet; MRA; Paganini/Rachmaninov)
112. 19 January 1997 [NM] (Education in England)
113. 22 January 1997 [ES] (MRA; letters to Shakespearean; Bacon and Shakespeare)
114. 26 January 1997 [NM] (Reviews; Love's Labours Lost)
115. 2 February 1997 [ES] (Spellings; Romeo and Juliet; Brahms book; puns; various)
116. 15 February 1997 [NM] (Puns; Spurgeon; non-Latinate Shakespeare)
117. 26 February 1997 [ES] (Puns; new generations; Shakespeare website; cryptanalysis; Hamlet)
118. 9 March 1997 [NM] (Bacon's poetry; Baconiana; Hamlet)
119. 15 March 1997 [ES] (Shakespeare and Bible; signatures; Real Shakespeare II)
120. 13 April 1997 [ES] (Light music; Woodstock)
121. 20 April 1997 [NM] (Arms; Woodstock; Frank Sypher's letter)
122. 1 May 1997 [ES] (Lenin; Bacon's Essays; Woodstock)
123. 9 June 1997 [NM] (Schooldays memories; Spanish civil war)
124. 15 June 1997 [ES] (Spanish civil war; hidalgos: Real Shakespeare II; last essay on Elgar)
125. 12 October 1997 [ES] (Meetings with editors; projects and essays)
126. 6 December 1997 [ES] (Rilke; art, artists, subjectivism; Brahms songs)
127. 9 February 1998 [ES] (RS II; Jeremy on Ravel; Humphrey Burton)
128. 21 February 1998 [ES] (French words and mélodies)
129. 28 April 1998 [ES] (RS II and Brahms book; Pericles; Vendler's book on Sonnets; Bacon and King James)
130. 23 June 1998 [NM] (Bowen on Bacon)
131. 27 June 1998 [ES] (Sonnets words; Peter Milward; Catholic Shakespeare)
132. 27 July 1998 [ES] (More on Vendler; late style (Sams, Fauré, Beethoven); Ockam's Razor; singers)
133. 29 Nov. 1998 [ES] (Germany and "Time" on Edward III; Brahms; Mondnacht; wrong words)
134. 17 March 1999 [ES] (Brahms book finished; back to Shakespeare)
135. 6 April 1999 [ES] (Bloom reviewed; Othello)
136. 27 January 2000 [ES] (Sonnets; Shakespeare or Bacon?; Pericles)
137. 13 February 2000 [ES] (Bacon)
138. 4 August 2000 [ES] (Musicology; Schubert)
139. 17 November 2000 [ES] (Shakespeare as a child of his time; Hamlet Q1; 'Negative Capability'; Shakespeare's spelling)
140. 12 March 2001 [ES] (e-mail, he-mail, female; Elgar's ciphers; Bad Quartos disasterisked)
141. 13 April 2001 [ES] (Puns; Real Shakespeare II)
142. 25 November 2002 [ES] (Real Shakespeare II; Edward III; Northumberland MS)
143. 7 February 2003 [ES] (Burgoyne Folio; Northumberland MS)