Shaw and Shakespeare
Sir: Christopher Sykes and your readers may like to know that at Birmingham in 1904, Bernard Shaw proved he had written the works of William Shakespeare and not Francis Bacon.
Further, in the Clarion 1929, Sidney and Beatrice Webb were similarly proved to have written the works of Bernard Shaw.
Bacon must have been written by Wil By deduction the works of Francis liam Shakespeare although the cipher cryptogram method of proof used to demonstrate the other claims is not to hand.
I suppose that learned literary societies are allowed a little mental relaxation? As Shaw so aplty put it, to act as "a rallying point for the co-operation and education of kindred spirits and a forum for their irreconcilable controversies" as well as the main function of promoting a wider and clearer understanding of an author's life,
work and thought. Eric F. J. Ford General Secretary, the Shaw Society, 125 Markyate Road, Dagenham, Essex.
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