"At present, I possess no positive proof whatever. Let it be remembered
that my observations are merely relative. I yet hope to meet with an
impression of the ring in my possession; and in this I am more
particularly encouraged by the fact, that should success attend the
investigation, this seal-ring would be the _only existing article_
PROVED to have originally belonged to our immortal poet."
When Mr. Wheler wrote, the signatures in Montaigne's work, &c. had not been
restored to the light.