Mickleham, Nov. 14. 1849.
[We cannot insert the interesting Query which our correspondent
has forwarded on the subject of the disappearance of
Shakespeare's MSS. without referring to the ingenious suggestion
upon that subject so skilfully brought forward by the Rev.
Joseph Hunter in his _New Illustrations of the Life, Studies,
and Writings of Shakspeare_, vol. i. p. 105.:--"That the entire
disappearance of all manuscripts of Shakspeare, so entire that
no writing of his remains except his name, and only one letter
ever addressed to him, is in some way connected with the
religious turn which his posterity took, in whose eyes there
would be much to be lamented in what they must, I fear, have
considered a prostitution of the noble talents which had been
given him."]
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