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.

51. 27 June 1993 [ES] (Bacon's 'haiku')
52. 2 July 1993 [NM] (Book on Wolf; Geneva)
53. 6 July 1993 [NM] (Bacon's homosexuality; Vickers on)
54. 21 July 1993 [ES] (Re Bacon's homosexuality; Gruner competition)
55. 3 October 1993 [NM] (Freud; Nupen's film on St. Francis vs Zeffirelli's)
56. 10 October 1993 [ES] (RS to Yale; Brahms; stylometyry; Rilke)
57. 23 January 1994 [ES] (Signatures; MRA)
58. 18 February 1994 [ES] (book on Brahms; Papillons)
59. 6 November 1994 [ES] (Rilke; Jonathan Hope and stylometry)
60. 10 April 1995 [ES] (Yale editing; Edward III; Stratfordians )
61. 5 April 1995 [NM] (Real Shakespeare; Salvador De Madariaga; Northumberland MS; Thomas More; against Academy)
62. 16 April 1995 [ES] (handwriting; Housman; Marlowe; Shakespeare as revisor)
63. 30 April 1995 [NM] (Early Shakespeare; Hamilton; Reed on Bacon)
64. 13 May 1995 [ES] (Dark Lady; Mullidor)
65. 22 May 1995 [NM] (Baconians; deposition scene; Mme de Chambrun; Real Shakespeare II)
66. 25 May 1995 [ES] (Chambrun on Spedding; deposition scene)
67. 27 May 1995 [ES] (Hugh Calvert; RS II; Greek; Ann Geneva's book on Astrology; Yashdip Bains's book on MRA)
68. 2 June 1995 [ES] (Deposition scene; Bacon and astrology; Elizabeth I as tyrant)
69. 12 June 1995 [NM] (Astrology; Shakespeare's Catholicism; Mr WH)
70. 12 June 1995 [ES] (Essex; Edward III)
71. 4 July 1995 [ES] (Hotson and Southampton; Elizabeth I as early Hitler)
72. 18 August 1995 [ES] (Shakespeare and Elizabeth; College of Arms)
73. 16 September 1995 [ES] (Cicero as Hamlet source; Francesca Bugliani; superfluous theories on "To be"; London seminar)
74. 8 October 1995 [ES] (More on Tusculan Disputations and Hamlet; dramatic characters aren't real people)
75. 25 October 1995 [ES] (Brahms; Sonnets; Henry VIII/Essex parallels)
76. 24 November 1995 [ES] (Nashe and Greene; Bacon and Amleth/Hamlet; Shakespeare mask)
77. 30 December 1995 [ES] (Menaphon and Groatsworth; Looney and Freud; Mendel and genetics laws; chess champions)
78. 9 January 1996 [NM] (Venus and Adonis; St. Albans boar; chess)
79. 21 January 1996 [ES] (St. Albans boar: Capablanca and other chess champions)
80. 5 February 1996 [NM] (Sonnets; Mr. W.H; 2 Shakespeares)
81. 10 February 1996 [ES] (Mr W.H.; Strange; reprints of Tudor documents)
82. 13 February 1996 [ES] (Mr. W.H.; Hugh Calvert: Papillons)
83. 21 February 1996 [NM] (Hotson; Shakespeare's Will; Baconians)
84. 29 February 1996 [ES] (Negative evidence; Cervantes)
85. 1 March 1996 [ES] (Nashe; Brahms)
86. 14 March 1996 [ES] (Edward III; de Musset on the Muse)
87. 15 April 1996 [ES] (Real Shakespeare: Paris)
88. 20 April 1996 [NM] (Don Quixote; Northumberland MS; Arden of Faversham; "begetting")
89. 30 April 1996 [ES] (Northumberland MS; TLS article on Sh. Arms)
90. 6 May 1996 [ES] (Birthday concert: Chandos portrait)
91. 25 June 1996 [ES] (Edward III; book on Brahms; Essex rebellion)
92. 29 July 1996 [NM] (Schubert and Melville; Richard II)
93. 1 August 1996 [ES] (Edward III; Leigh-on-Sea; Colette)
94. 4 August 1996 [NM] (Edward III; chess; "Via!" (Shakespeare as current Italian)
95. 11 August 1996 [ES] (Spiritual significance pof chess pieces; little Latin; Elgar)
96. 11 August 1996 [NM] (Shakespeare Arms piece; S. de Madariaga on Calisto y Melibea; King John; Hölderlin)
97. 13 August 1996 [ES] (Elgar's Violin Concerto and Gil Blas; Edward Sams and Eric III)
98. 17 August 1996 [ES] (Shakespeare as revisor; as Papist; Elgar; Cervantes)
99. 21 August 1996 [NM] (Alma encerrada; controversy with Carr)
100. 26 August 1996 [ES] (Double Helix; Bad Quartos; University people)