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Shakespeare and Bacon: Letters Eric Sams/Nieves Hayat de Madariaga Mathews

 
 
T) Letters 1987-2003

I'm much obliged to Mrs. Beatrice Cazac for sending me the following material and for the permission to reproduce her mother's letters.

My grateful thanks to Dr. Andrew Lamb for checking and proof-reading my transcripts, and for his most valuable suggestions.

Click on the paperclip or on the upper-right angle to move between the letters.

 

 

1. 30 June 1987 (NM) Bacon and Shakespeare; holographs and handwriting problems; Hamilton; Spedding
2. 4 Jul. 1987 (ES) Hamilton; Shakespeare's will;
3. 18 Jul. 1987 (NM) Northumberland MS; Edmund Ironside; Shakespeare's Handwriting; various questions
4. 27 Jul. 1987 (ES) Ironside; OED; Sonnets; Hamilton; Hamlet 
5. 21 Sept. 1987 (NM) More on Handwriting; Hamlet essay; Bacon's cryptography various
6. 29 Sept. 1987 (ES) Graphology and paleography; Hamilton; forensic studies
7. 1 Oct. 1987 (ES) Comments on Bacon book; Mrs Gallup; Bacon's cryptology
8. 13 Oct. 1987 (NM) Mrs. Gallup and Bacon's cipher; cryptanalysis problems
9. 31 Oct. 1987 (ES) More on Mrs Gallup and ciphers; Edward III and Oxford Magazine controversy
10. 6 Jan. 1988 (NM) Book on Bacon
11. 27 Jan. 1988 (ES) Honigmann
12. 7 Feb. 1988 (NM) Bacon's traducers
13. 21 Feb. 1988 (ES) Comments on anti-anti-Baconianism; "tell what you got right, instead of what they used to get wrong"
14. 6 March 1988 (NM) More on Bacon detraction; three kinds of people;
15. 13 March 1988 (NM) More on detraction
16. 16 March 1988 (ES) Power of detraction?; Der Fall Wagners as classic case
17. 17 March 1988 (ES) More on detraction
18. 5 Apr. 1988 (ES) Bacon's formulations and imagery; detraction is a distraction; Letters to an Atheist
19. 17 Apr. 1988 (NM) Rehabilitation; Spedding; Crowther and "Marxist" Bacon; Lewis on Bacon's essays
20. 30 Apr./3 May 1988 (ES) more on detraction; music; Leopardi
21. 6 Aug. 1988 (NM) "Your name made for posterity"; La Celestina
22. 15 Aug. 1988 (ES) Dieter Schamp; Shakespeare essays
23. 6 Sept. 1988 (NM) Marlowe's influence on Shakespeare; Vickers; Oxford shakespeare; Chettle; Northumberland MS
24. 31 Oct. 1988 (ES) From Shakespeare back to Brahms
25. 5 Nov. 1988 (ES) A manuscript sample
26. 17 Nov. 1988 (NM) Power-struggle model of editorship; Peter Levi on Shakespeare
27. 5 Dec. 1988 (ES) Letters from Italy; Hamilton and a candidate Shakespeare signature; TV film on Music and Cipher
28. 8 Jan. 1989 (NM) Invitation to Italy; Hamilton
29. 20 Jan. 1989 (ES) Samson Agonistes; Hamilton; trinity of 19th poets (Mörike, Baudelaire, Leopardi)
30. 19 March 1989 (NM) TLS review; Sams-style; Vickers and Hamilton on Shakespeare's Will; Florence; Baudelaire and Wilde
31. 29 March 1989 (ES) Shakespeare's Handwriting; music and cipher; Brahms; Wilde; Spinoza; Eliot Slater's death
32. 30 May 1989 (ES) Lecture on Mörike; Schoenbaum; Jeremy's music for The Tempest
33. 12 Sept.1989 (ES) Clara Schumann; Baudelairisation; Schubert; Hamlet; Edward III
34. 17 Nov. 1989 (ES) Journey to Southend; "pace"; philosophy of the turning-point; Leopardi-like freedom from fear; Germany
35. 18 May 1990 (ES) Tolstoy; Gary Taylor; "We can't be all aestheticians"
36. 8 June 1990 (ES) Mendel; Swinburne; disrelish of anything mysterious; holocaust as catastrophic consequence
37. 21 Oct. 1990 (ES) Richard Pokorny's graphology; Chettle; Greene; invitation to Ischia
38. 17 March 1991 (ES) La diritta via often becomes sadly smarrita; Edward III; Oxbridge establishment on MRA
39. 5 Aug. 1991 (ES) Why Cortona?; how the shakes appear;
40. 1 Sept. 1991 (NM) Fauré; Shakespeare and Bacon; Freudian/Marxist commentators; Hamilton
41. 17 Sept. 1991 (ES) Back from Ischia; N'est-ce pas; Rilke; book on Shakespeare (RS)
42. 14 Nov. 1991 (ES) Sunset; Bernard Levin; word-play symposium
43. 21 Nov. 1992 (ES) Swinburne; Baldock's book on Casals; Honigmann; Essex letters
44. 28 Dec. 1992 (ES) King John as source of Troublesome Reign; early start: William Langland's verse
45. 8 March 1993 (ES) Querelle with Nye; contacts with Yale
46. 26 March 1993 (ES) Casals; Nye
47. 5 Apr. 1993 (NM) Nye; "crucial"; academic methodology; Chettle
48. 11 Apr. 1993 (ES) "Crucial"; D. Coquillette's book on Bacon
49. 8 June 1993 (NM) Nye controversy; Vickers on Bacon book; a different Bacon
50. 13 June 1993 (ES) Vickers on Bacon book; "isms"; Real Shakespeare;
51. 27 June 1993 (ES) Bacon's 'haiku'
52. 2 Jul. 1993 (NM) Book on Wolf; Geneva
53. 6 Jul. 1993 (NM) Bacon's homosexuality; Vickers on
54. 21 July 1993 (ES) Re Bacon's homosexuality; Gruner competition
55. 3 Oct. 1993 (NM) Freud; Nupen's film on St. Francis vs Zeffirelli's)
56. 10 Oct. 1993 (ES) RS to Yale; Brahms; stylometyry; Rilke
57. 23 Jan. 1994 (ES) Signatures; MRA
58. 18 Feb. 1994 (ES) book on Brahms; Papillons
59. 6 Nov. 1994 (ES) Rilke; Jonathan Hope and stylometry
60. 10 Feb. 1995 (ES) Yale editing; Edward III; Stratfordians 
61. 5 Apr. 1995 (NM) Real Shakespeare; Salvador De Madariaga; Northumberland MS; Thomas More; against Academy
62. 16 Apr. 1995 (ES) handwriting; Housman; Marlowe; Shakespeare as revisor
63. 30 Apr. 1995 (NM) Early Shakespeare; Hamilton; Reed on Bacon
64. 13 May 1995 (ES) Dark Lady; Mullidor
65. 22 May 1995 (NM) Baconians; deposition scene; Mme de Chambrun; Real Shakespeare II
66. 25 May 1995 (NM) Chambrun on Spedding; deposition scene
67. 27 May 1995 (ES) Hugh Calvert; RS II; Greek; Ann Geneva's book on Astrology; Yashdip Bains's book on MRA
68. 2 June 1995 (ES) Deposition scene; Bacon and astrology; Elizabeth I as tyrant
69. 12 June 1995 (NM) Astrology; Shakespeare's Catholicism; Mr WH
70. 12 June 1995 (ES) Essex; Edward III
71. 4 July 1995 (ES) Hotson and Southampton; Elizabeth I as early Hitler
72. 18 Aug. 1995 (ES) Shakespeare and Elizabeth; College of Arms
73. 16 Sept. 1995 (ES) Cicero as Hamlet source; Francesca Bugliani; superfluous theories on "To be"; London seminar
74. 8 Oct. 1995 (ES) More on Tusculan Disputations and Hamlet; dramatic characters aren't real people
75. 25 Oct. 1995 (ES) Brahms; Sonnets; Henry VIII/Essex parallels
76. 24 Nov. 1995 (ES) Nashe and Greene; Bacon and Amleth/Hamlet; Shakespeare mask
77. 30 Dec. 1995 (ES) Menaphon and Groatsworth; Looney and Freud; Mendel and genetics laws; chess champions
78. 9 Jan. 1996 (NM) Venus and Adonis; St. Albans boar; chess
79. 21 Jan. 1996 (ES) St. Albans boar: Capablanca and other chess champions
80. 5 Feb. 1996 (NM) Sonnets; Mr. W.H; 2 Shakespeares
81. 10 Feb. 1996 (ES) Mr W.H.; Strange; reprints of Tudor documents
82. 13 Feb. 1996 (ES) Mr. W.H.; Hugh Calvert: Papillons
83. 21 feb. 1996 (NM) Hotson; Shakespeare's Will; Baconians
84. 29. Feb. 1996 (ES) Negative evidence; Cervantes
85. 1 March 1996 (ES) Nashe; Brahms
86. 14 March 1996 (ES) Edward III; de Musset on the Muse
87. 15 Apr. 1996 (ES) Real shakespeare: Paris
88. 20 Apr. 1996 (NM) Don Quixote; Northumberland MS; Arden of Faversham; "begetting"
89. 30 Apr. 1996(ES) Northumberland MS; TLS article on Sh. Arms
90. 6 May 1996 (ES) Birthday concert: Chandos portrait
91. 25 June 1996 (ES) Edward III; book on Brahms; Essex rebellion
92. 29 Jul. 1996 (NM) Schubert and Melville; Richard II
93. 1 Aug. 1996 (ES) Edward III; Leigh-on-Sea; Colette
94. 4 Aug. 1996 (NM) Edward III; chess; "Via!" (Shakespeare as current Italian)
95. 11 Aug. 1996 (ES) Spiritual significance pof chess pieces; little Latin; Elgar
96. 11 Aug. 1996 (NM) Shakespeare Arms piece; S. de Madariaga on Calisto y Melibea; King John; Hölderlin
97. 13 Aug. 1996 (ES) Elgar's Violin Concerto and Gil Blas; Edward Sams and Eric III
98. 17 Aug. 1996 (ES) Shakespeare as revisor; as Papist; Elgar; Cervantes
99. 21 Aug. 1996 (NM) Alma encerrada; controversy with Carr
100. 26 Aug. 1996 (ES) Double Helix; Bad Quartos; University people
101. 2 Sept. 1996 (ES) Bad Quartos; University Wits; Honigmann; little Latin; various topics
102 15 Sept. 1996 (NM) Shakespeare spellings; King John anti-Pope
103. 22 Sept. 1996 (ES) DNA; poems and songs; King John; Sonnets
104. 17 Oct. 1996 (NM) Southampton as the Friend; Sonnets; eternity=procreation
105. 17 Oct. 1996 (ES) Nye; Leopardi; Rowse; Dark Lady; Honours, ecc.
106. 21 Oct.  1996 (ES) Gabriel Ronay and TLS; Leopardi; Rowse; manuscripts, compositors, copyists; Honigmann; eternity
107. 16 Nov. 1996 (NM) Bacon's application for investiture; Shakespeare spellings; St. Albans mural
108. 6 Jan. 1997 (NM) Together in TLS; insane scholars and methodology
109. 8 Jan. 1997 (ES) Hamilton's death; Edward III reviews; musico- and Shakespearology
110. 13 Jan. 1997 (ES) Honour system; MRA; Sonnets begetter; comparative works; MRA
111. 17 Jan. 1997 (ES) The Weakest goeth to the Wall; Romeo and Juliet; MRA; Paganini/Rachmaninov
112. 19 Jan 1997 (NM) Education in England
113. 22 Jan. 1997 (ES) MRA; letters to Shakespearean; Bacon and Shakespeare
114. 26 Jan. 1997 (NM) Reviews; Love's Labours Lost
115. 2 Feb. 1997 (ES) Spellings; Romeo and Juliet; Brahms book; puns; various
116. 15 Feb. 1997 (NM) Puns; Spurgeon; non-Latinate Sh.
117. 26 Feb. 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 Apr. 1997 (ES) Light music; Woodstock
121. 20 Apr. 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 Oct. 1997 (ES) Meetings with editors; projects and essays
126. 6 Dec. 1997 (ES) Rilke; art, artists, subjectivism; Brahms songs
127. 9 Feb. 1998 (ES) RS II; Jeremy on Ravel; Humphrey Burton
128. 21 Feb. 1998 (ES) French words and mélodies
129. 28 Apr. 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 Apr. 1999 (ES) Bloom reviewed; Othello
136. 27 Jan. 2000 (ES) Sonnets; Shakespeare or Bacon?; Pericles
137. 13 Feb. 2000 (ES) Bacon
138. 4 Aug. 2000 (ES) Musicology; Schubert
139. 17 Nov. 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 Apr. 2001 (ES) Puns; Real Shakespeare II
142. 25 Nov. 2002 (ES) Real Shakespeare II; Edward III; Northumberland MS
143. 7 Feb. 2003 (ES) Burgoyne Folio; Northumberland MS

    

 

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