Mark Twain's exposition of the Baconian authorship of Shakespeare's Works. Mark Twain's title in the ms. is "The Bacon-Shakspeare Feud Again From my Autobiography." At the beginning of the text are the words "Dictated Feb. 13, 1909." This note is deleted but marked "STET." Nevertheless, the whole text and the above note are in Clemens' autograph, as are numerous alterations
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The work was published with the title Is Shakespeare dead? ... (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909). This ms. could not have been the copy for this publication, for the ms contains words, phrases, and longer passages which do not appear in the printed book, and vice versa. Added to the ms. are a typewritten title-page and a typewritten account of the writing of the ms. and its subsequent history, dated 1911 and signed by C. G. Lark [Charles Tressler Lark] who acted as agent for Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the lawyer for the Clemens estate
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Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2016. America's Shakespeare. tp
Los Angeles,CA. Los Angeles public library.2016.America's Shakespeare
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Extended title: Is Shakespeare dead? From my autobiography 1909
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