HARVARD'S FORTUNE.
NEW YORK. June 20. How Shakespeare would have chuckled at the thought of two wellarmed American detectives carrying editions of his plays from New York to Harvard University, in Massachusetts, with as much care as they would bestow upon gold specie. Yet this incident occurred when S 3 small volumes valued at £35,000 were transported to Harvard University as a gift to the university’s famous collection of Elizabethan drama. Dr Rosetibach chose volumes on request of the heirs of William White, whose Elizabethan library was world famous. Mr White died in Brooklyn, New York, last year, and Princeton University has already benefited by the princely gift of the famous Ives copy of Shakespeare’s first folios.
Harvard’s priceless present contains a 1599 Second Edition of “Romeo and Juliet,” of which only 12 copies are known: a 1598 First Edition ot “ Love’s Labour Lost,” of which the world holds only 11 copies; and a 1600 “ Much Ado About Nothing,” one of 16 known copies. Besides the Shakespeare proper, there are First Editions of plays in which he is believed to hsvo been part author, plays which ho used as sources-, and also plays wrongly attributed to him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1928, Page 1
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