To and from Nieves Hayat de Madariaga

Shakespeare and Bacon

I'm much obliged to Mrs. Beatrice Cazac for sending me her mother's letters  and for permission to reproduce them. My grateful thanks to Dr. Andrew Lamb for checking and proof-reading my transcripts, and for his most valuable suggestions.

1. 30 June 1987 [NM] (Bacon and Shakespeare; holographs and handwriting problems; Hamilton; Spedding)
2. 4 July 1987 [ES] (Hamilton; Shakespeare's will)
3. 18 July 1987 [NM] (Northumberland MS; Edmund Ironside; Shakespeare's Handwriting; various questions)
5. 21 September 1987 [NM] (More on Handwriting; Hamlet essay; Bacon's cryptography various)
4. 27 July 1987 [ES] (Ironside; OED; Sonnets; Hamilton; Hamlet )
6. 29 September 1987 [ES] (Graphology and paleography; Hamilton; forensic studies)
7. 1 October 1987 [ES] (Comments on Bacon book; Mrs Gallup; Bacon's cryptology)
8. 13 October 1987 [NM] (Mrs. Gallup and Bacon's cipher; cryptanalysis problems)
9. 31 October 1987 [ES] (More on Mrs Gallup and ciphers; Edward III and Oxford Magazine controversy)
10. 6 January 1988 [NM] (Book on Bacon)
11. 27 January 1988 [ES] (Honigmann)
12. 7 February 1988 [NM] (Bacon's traducers)
13. 21 February 1988 [ES] (Comments on anti-anti-Baconianism; "tell what you got right, instead of what they used to get wrong")
14. 6 March 1988 [NM] (More on Bacon detraction; three kinds of people)
15. 13 March 1988 [NM] (More on detraction)
16. 16 March 1988 [ES] (Power of detraction?; Der Fall Wagners as classic case)
17. 17 March 1988 [ES] (More on detraction)
18. 5 April 1988 [ES] (Bacon's formulations and imagery; detraction is a distraction; Letters to an Atheist)
19. 17 April 1988 [NM] (Rehabilitation; Spedding; Crowther and "Marxist" Bacon; Lewis on Bacon's essays)
20. 30 April-3 May 1988 [ES] (more on detraction; music; Leopardi)
21. 6 August 1998 [NM] ("Your name made for posterity"; La Celestina)
22. 15 August 1988 [ES] (Dieter Schamp; Shakespeare essays)
23. 6 September 1988 [NM] (Marlowe's influence on Shakespeare; Vickers; Oxford shakespeare; Chettle; Northumberland MS)
24. 31 October 1988 [ES] (From Shakespeare back to Brahms)
25. 5 November 1988 [ES] (A manuscript sample)
26. 17 November 1988 [NM] (Power-struggle model of editorship; Peter Levi on Shakespeare)
27. 5 December 1989 [ES] (Letters from Italy; Hamilton and a candidate Shakespeare signature; TV film on Music and Cipher)
28. 8 January 1989 [NM] (Invitation to Italy; Hamilton)
29. 20 January 1989 [ES] (Samson Agonistes; Hamilton; trinity of 19th poets [Mörike, Baudelaire, Leopardi])
30. 19 March 1989 [NM] (TLS review; Sams-style; Vickers and Hamilton on Shakespeare's Will; Florence; Baudelaire and Wilde)
31. 29 March 1989 [ES] (Shakespeare's Handwriting; music and cipher; Brahms; Wilde; Spinoza; Eliot Slater's death)
32. 30 May 1989 [ES] (Lecture on Mörike; Schoenbaum; Jeremy's music for The Tempest)
33. 12 September 1989 [ES] (Clara Schumann; Baudelairisation; Schubert; Hamlet; Edward III)
34. 17 November 1989 [ES] (Journey to Southend; "pace"; philosophy of the turning-point; Leopardi-like freedom from fear; Germany)
35. 18 May 1990 [ES] (Tolstoy; Gary Taylor; "We can't be all aestheticians")
36. 8 June 1990 [ES] (Mendel; Swinburne; disrelish of anything mysterious; holocaust as catastrophic consequence)
37. 21 October 1990 [ES] (Richard Pokorny's graphology; Chettle; Greene; invitation to Ischia)
38. 17 March 1991 [ES] (La diritta via often becomes sadly smarrita; Edward III; Oxbridge establishment on MRA)
39. 5 August 1991 [ES] (Why Cortona?; how the shakes appear)
40. 1 September 1991 [NM] (Fauré; Shakespeare and Bacon; Freudian/Marxist commentators; Hamilton)
41. 17 September 1991 [ES] (Back from Ischia; N'est-ce pas; Rilke; book on Shakespeare [RS])
42. 14 November 1991 [ES] (Sunset; Bernard Levin; word-play symposium)
43. 21 November 1992 [ES] (Swinburne; Baldock's book on Casals; Honigmann; Essex letters)
44. 28 December 1992 [ES] (King John as source of Troublesome Reign; early start: William Langland's verse)
45. 8 March 1993 [ES] (Querelle with Nye; contacts with Yale)
46. 26 March 1993 [ES] (Casals; Nye)
47. 5 April 1993 [ES] (Nye; "crucial"; academic methodology; Chettle)
48. 11 April 1993 [ES]
49. 8 June 1993 [NM] (Nye controversy; Vickers on Bacon book; a different Bacon)
50. 13 June 1993 [ES] (Vickers on Bacon book; "isms"; Real Shakespeare)