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5?^ THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY
VIVIAN C. HOPKINS
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MEMORANDA AND DOCUMENTS 5<3
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504 THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY
With Miss Bacon I was very well acquainted and it was through
me, that she was first introduced to those who became her kindest
Boston friends. My interest does not flag. In her sorrows, her labors,
7 Later published as Bacon and Shakespeare (London, 1857).
8 Rusk, editor, Letters, v, 85.
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MEMORANDA AND DOCUMENTS 505
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506 THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY
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If Emerson had written a criticism of Miss Bacon's book, he would
have been obliged to admit her one irresistible claim on his at-
tention: the fact that her theory concerning the authorship of
Shakespeare's Plays was transcendental self-reliance raised to the
nth degree.
K. R. CHANDRASEKHARAN
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