Hello Bob and Heidi! I haven't seen the video yet, but just wanted to contact the SOF regarding a recent article in The Daily Mail (UK) about a 1595 painting thought to "possibly" be of Shakespeare. All standard fare, except that this fine painting was bought from an estate sale in the 1960s from the Great Tew Estate in Oxfordshire! It might be wishful thinking on my part, but I see something of a resemblance to our friend de Vere, otherwise I can't see much reason in particular to link the painting to the Stratford chap/engraving, apart from the ruff, which in itself wasn't terribly unusual for the time. I can't find the article online, so if you haven't seen this, I'm happy to send you a photograph of the article.
I never had any bias...one way or another...until I read Charlton Ogburn's great book. As James Warren has said, our advantage over Stratfordians is that we have all, most probably, been somewhere else before we settled on Oxford. Partisans of The Stratford Man seem stuck in a mental rut.
*Anyone want to brainstorm a little today (?)* I recently learned about . . . "two nineteenth century British archaeologists, B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, who decided they wanted to find manuscripts. Well, how does one do that (?) They had a bright idea. Why not go to a site where a city was known once to have been, and try to find the garbage dump (?)" They succeeded spectacularly. "They found so many thousands of these things that their discoveries are still being published to this day. It’s the most enormous collection of writings ever found." So okay . . . what is the equivalent "bright idea" for finding _Shakespeare manuscripts_ (?)
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Hello Bob and Heidi! I haven't seen the video yet, but just wanted to contact the SOF regarding a recent article in The Daily Mail (UK) about a 1595 painting thought to "possibly" be of Shakespeare. All standard fare, except that this fine painting was bought from an estate sale in the 1960s from the Great Tew Estate in Oxfordshire! It might be wishful thinking on my part, but I see something of a resemblance to our friend de Vere, otherwise I can't see much reason in particular to link the painting to the Stratford chap/engraving, apart from the ruff, which in itself wasn't terribly unusual for the time. I can't find the article online, so if you haven't seen this, I'm happy to send you a photograph of the article.
Many thanks for your time and effort.
I never had any bias...one way or another...until I read Charlton Ogburn's great book. As James Warren has said, our advantage over Stratfordians is that we have all, most probably, been somewhere else before we settled on Oxford. Partisans of The Stratford Man seem stuck in a mental rut.
*Anyone want to brainstorm a little today (?)*
I recently learned about . . . "two nineteenth century British archaeologists, B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, who decided they wanted to find manuscripts. Well, how does one do that (?) They had a bright idea. Why not go to a site where a city was known once to have been, and try to find the garbage dump (?)" They succeeded spectacularly. "They found so many thousands of these things that their discoveries are still being published to this day. It’s the most enormous collection of writings ever found."
So okay . . . what is the equivalent "bright idea" for finding _Shakespeare manuscripts_ (?)