13 JANUARY 1917, Page 12

A SHAKESPEARE AUTOGRAPH.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—In reference to the interesting paper on " A Shakespeare Autograph" in the Spectator of December 30th, Lord Tennyson, in his excellent " Memoir " of his father, quotes him as saying (Vol. II., p. 290): "Spedding insisted that Shakespeare, among the many plays that he edited for the stage, had corrected a play on Sir Thomas More in the British Museum. It is a poor play. but Spedding believes that the additions were possibly in Shakespeare's actual handwriting." I have come upon this by