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  • Orville Ward Owen

    Owen used some sort of word selection cipher on the Shakespeare plays and other works of that time to reveal that Bacon was the natural son of Queen Elizabeth.


    Sir Francis Bacon's Cipher Story, Volume 1 (Detroit: Howard Publishing, 1893), link
    by Orville Ward Owen


    Sir Francis Bacon's Cipher Story, Volume 2 (Detroit: Howard Publishing, 1894), link
    by Orville Ward Owen


    Sir Francis Bacon's Cipher Story, Volume 3 (Detroit: Howard Publishing, 1894), link
    by Orville Ward Owen


    Sir Francis Bacon's Cipher Story, Volume 4 (Detroit: Howard Publishing, 1894), link
    by Orville Ward Owen


    Sir Francis Bacon's Cipher Story, Volume 5 (Detroit: Howard Publishing, 1895), link
    by Orville Ward Owen


    Owen's story prompted a review of rumors about Elizabeth.

    Other Times and Other Seasons (New York: Harper and Brothesr, 1895), Pages 95-104
    by Laurence Hutton

    A Gammon of Bacon in Elizabeth's Reign

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    • Originally posted by Pcdunn View Post
      Re "How Shakespeare's Skull was Stolen / Circa 1794 / by a Warwickshire man"-- I recently watched this on public television:

      Historian Dr. Helen Castor explores the mysteries surrounding Shakespeare's burial place.


      The link has online videos of part of the discussion about the missing skull and the search with ground-penetrating radar.
      They also discussed how the idea might have gotten started because the marker-stone above his grave seems too short for a full-sized man.
      I don't know what I am getting involved in here. The Shakespeare controversy seems to be a mile off from the original discussion and im unsure how relevant Shakespeare is to the thread, or how we got here. However, Shakespeare's life & times and the authorship question is my pet subject. With regards to the supposedly missing skull:

      I was disappointed with the Channel 4 documentary on Shakespeare's grave. At face value it looked quite detailed and professional documentary. However, it deliberately mislead. It left out some very pertinent information that any decent researcher should have known; that Shakespeare's entire skeleton is probably missing and has been for some time. This below is from the American writer, Washington Irving. Irving toured Stratford in the late 18th century. Here is Irving detailing a conversation he had with an old sexton of the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon:


      "The inscription on the tombstone has not
      been without its effect. It has prevented the
      removal of his remains from the bosom of his
      native place to Westminster Abbey, which was
      at one time contemplated. A few years since
      also, as some labourers were digging to make an
      adjoining vault, the earth caved in, so as to
      leave a vacant space almost like an arch,
      through which one might have reached into his
      grave. No one, however, presumed to meddle
      with his remains, so awfully guarded by a
      malediction ; and lest any of the idle or the
      curious, or any collector of relics, should be
      tempted to commit depredations, the old sexton
      kept watch over the place ^for two days, until
      the vault was finished, and the aperture closed
      again. (22) He told me that he had made bold to
      look in at the hole, but could see neither coffin
      nor bones; nothing but dust. It was something,
      I thought, to have seen the dust of Shakespeare."[
      /I]

      This isn't cast iron proof that Shakespeare's bones have disappeared, but I would think it pertinent information to a documentary dealing with Shakespeare's skull & bones. Yet the documentary failed to mention this passage from the only person who claims to have seen inside the grave.

      Tradename, the skull in question was determined not to have been Shakespeare's. From memory it was determined to have been a female skull.
      Last edited by jason_c; 02-19-2017, 01:35 AM.

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      • Eliazbeth Wells Gallup, Part I

        Thanks for the information about Washington Irving and about the spare skull, jason_c.

        Elizabeth Wells Gallup had assisted Orville Owen in preparing his books about Bacon's "word cipher." Later, she produced her own decoded messages from the Shakespeare plays, Bacon's writings and other works. She claimed that they had been encoded using Bacon's "Bi-lateral cipher" through the intermixing of two distinct fonts in printing the books.

        I'll link to the Friedmans' book again, since it devotes considerable space to the Gallup cipher.

        The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, link (see PDF download link on right side of page.)
        1957

        Author: William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman
        Publisher: Cambridge University Press


        The Friedmans had become acquainted with Gallup while both worked at the private Riverbank Laboratories, run by a man interested in the Bacon-Shakepeare controversy. William Friedman went on the a career in cryptanalysis for the US government.

        A brief bio of William Friendman on the NSA site.


        The Friedmans did not accept the validity of Gallup's decipherings, but viewed her as an honest person



        Second edition of Gallup's first book.

        The Bi-literal Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon (Detroit: Howard Publishing, 1900), link
        by Elizabeth Wells Gallup

        Parts I & II


        Third edition

        The Bi-literal Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon (London: Gay & Bird, 1901), link
        by Elizabeth Wells Gallup

        Parts I & II


        An entire play deciphered, which incorporates re-purposed passages from the Shakespeare plays.

        The Tragedy of Anne Boleyn: A Drama in Cipher Found in the Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Detroit: Howard Publishing, 1901), link
        by Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup

        a notice of the above work.

        The Publishers' Circular, Volume 76, January 4, 1902, Page 5

        Another "Bacon" Tragedy


        The third part of Gallup's work.

        The Bi-literal Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon (Detroit: Howard Publishing, 1910), link
        by Elizabeth Wells Gallup

        Part III


        A follow-up work by a student of Gallup's


        Studies in the Bi-literal Cipher of Francis Bacon (Boston: John W. Luce, 1913), link
        By Gertrude Horsford Fiske, Elizabeth Wells Gallup

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        • Elizabeth Wells Gallup, Part II

          Three articles discussing Gallup's first book. The third article, by Martson, finds parallels between what Gallup claimed was Bacon's translation of the Iliad and a later translation by Pope.

          The Nineteenth Century, Volume 50, December, 1901, Pages 920-935

          New Light on the Bacon-Shakespeare Cypher

          by W. H. Mallock



          The Nineteenth Century, Volume 51, January, 1902, Pages 39-49

          Mrs. Gallup's Cypher Story

          A Reply to Mr. Mallock

          by H. Candler



          The Nineteenth Century, Volume 51, January, 1902, Pages 50-59

          Mrs. Gallup's Cypher Story

          Part II

          Bacon-Shakespeare-Pope

          by R. B. Marston


          I couldn't find Gallup's full reply to the Marston article, but here is a notice of it.

          The Publishers' Circular, August 2, 1902, Page 93

          'Unfounded and Libelous Charges'

          'A Sealed Bag of Papers at the Record Office'

          An Appeal to His Majesty the King


          A follow-up to Marston's article in the journal of the Bacon Society.


          Baconiana, January, 1906, Pages 14-23

          Bacon and Pope

          by W. Theobald

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          • Elizabeth Wells Gallup Part III

            More critics, more replies.


            Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 26, March, 1902, Pages 393-401

            The Bi-Lateral Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon

            A New Light on a Few Old Books

            by Elizabeth Wells Gallup


            Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 26, April, 1902, Pages 484-489

            "Francis Bacon's Bi-Lateral Cypher"

            A Report

            by John Holt Schooling


            Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 27, May, 1902, Pages 123-131

            "The Bi-Lateral Cypher" of Sir Francis Bacon

            A Reply to certain Critics

            by Elizabeth Wells Gallup


            Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 27, 1902, Pages 368-370

            Mrs. Gallup and Bacon

            by Andrew Lang


            Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 29, January, 1903, Pages 77-89

            New Facts Relating to the Bacon-Shakespeare Question

            Part I

            by W.H. Mallock


            Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 29, February, 1903, Pages 215-228

            New Facts Relating to the Bacon-Shakespeare Question

            Part II

            by W.H. Mallock

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            • Elizabeth Wells Gallup Part IV

              A pair of biographical works which draw upon "Mrs. Gallup's decipherings" and the claim that Francis Bacon was Queen Elizabeth's son.[


              I]The Strange Case of Francis Tidir[/I] (London: Robert Banks, 1902), link
              by Parker Woodward


              The Early Life of Lord Bacon (London: Gay and Bird, 1902), link
              By Parker Woodward


              A collection of essays by the same author.

              Tudor Problems (London: Bird and Hancock, 1912), link
              by Parker Woodward



              Some works put out by Riverbank Laboratories, including one targeting innocent children.


              The Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon (Geneva, Illinois: Riverbank Laboratories, 1916), link
              By J. A. Powell


              The Keys for Deciphering the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon (Geneva, Illinois: Riverbank Laboratories, 1916), link


              Hints to the Decipherer of The Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon (Geneva, Illinois: Riverbank Laboratories, 1916), link


              Ciphers for the Little Folks (Geneva, Illinois: Riverbank Laboratories, 1916), link, alternate link with better colors

              I took a stab at deciphering the message in the castle picture on page 41, and almost got it. I found the solution in the first of William Friedman's lectures here (PDF).
              Last edited by TradeName; 03-04-2017, 08:27 PM.

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              • Booth and Reed

                The Friedman book on the ciphers has a chapter about this guy.

                Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis Bacon (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909), link
                by William Stone Booth


                Some works by Edwin Reed, with editions of two plays with Baconian annotations.


                Bacon Vs. Shakespeare: Brief for Plaintiff (Boston: Joseph Knight, 1897), link
                By Edwin Reed



                Francis Bacon Our Shake-speare (Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902), link
                By Edwin Reed



                Bacon and Shake-speare Parallelisms (London: Gay and Bird, 1902), link
                By Edwin Reed



                Bacon Vs. Shakspere: Noteworthy Opinions, Pro and Con (Boston: Coburn Publishing, 1905), link
                edited by Edwin Reed



                Coincidences, Bacon and Shakespeare (Boston: Coburn Publishing, 1905), link
                By Edwin Reed



                The Truth Concerning Stratford-upon-Avon, and Shakspere: With Other Essays Boston: Coburn Publishing, 1907), link
                By Edwin Reed



                The Shake-speare Drama of The Tempest (Boston: The Coburn Press, 1909), link
                By William Shakespeare, edited by Edwin Reed



                The Shake-speare Tragedy of Julius Cæsar (Boston: The Coburn Press, 1909), link
                By William Shakespeare, edited by Edwin Reed

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                • Two more works by the acrostic guy mentioned in the post above.

                  The Hidden Signatures of Francesco Colonna and Francis Bacon (Boston: W. A. Butterfield, 1910), link
                  by William Stone Booth


                  A pamphlet wherein Booth manipulates a portrait of Shakespeare and a portrait of Bacon.

                  The Droeshout Portrait of William Shakespeare (Boston: W. A. Butterfield, 1911), link
                  by William Stone Booth


                  Another work the Friedmans discuss. They say there was never a part 2.


                  The Cryptography of Shakespeare, Part One (Los Angeles: Howard Brown, 1922), link
                  By Walter Arensberg


                  Both Booth and Arenberg mention Bagsley.


                  Is it Shakespeare? (London: John Murray, 1903), link
                  By Walter Begley


                  Bacon's Nova Resuscitatio, Volume 1 (London: Gay and Bird, 1905), link
                  By Walter Begley


                  Bacon's Nova Resuscitatio, Volume 2 (London: Gay and Bird, 1905), link
                  By Walter Begley


                  Bacon's Nova Resuscitatio, Volume 3 (London: Gay and Bird, 1905), link
                  By Walter Begley

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                  • A book by Theobald, who compiled the selection of letters to the Daily Telegraph (Shakespeare Dethroned).

                    Shakespeare Studies in Baconian Light (London: Sampson, Low, 1901), link
                    by Robert Masters Theobald


                    An Irish judge weighs in on the Baconian side.

                    The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence (London: Longmans, Green, 1902), link
                    by Thomas Ebenezer Webb

                    A criticism of Theobald, with a follow-up volume.

                    The Baconian Mint: Its Claims Examined (London: Sampson, Low, 1903), link
                    by William Willis


                    The Baconian Mint: A Further Examination of Its Claims (London: W. H. Bartlett, 1908), link
                    by William Willis


                    A review of Webb that also criticizes Theobald.


                    Studies in Shakespeare (Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1904), Pages 332-369
                    by John Churton Collins

                    The Bacon Shakespeare Mania


                    Theobald's response to Collins

                    The Ethics of Criticism Illustrated by Mr. Churton Collins (London: Watts, 1904), link
                    by Robert Masters Theobald

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                    • Originally posted by TradeName View Post
                      A book by Theobald, who compiled the selection of letters to the Daily Telegraph (Shakespeare Dethroned).

                      A review of Webb that also criticizes Theobald.


                      Studies in Shakespeare (Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1904), Pages 332-369
                      by John Churton Collins

                      The Bacon Shakespeare Mania


                      Theobald's response to Collins

                      The Ethics of Criticism Illustrated by Mr. Churton Collins (London: Watts, 1904), link
                      by Robert Masters Theobald
                      I haven't added much recently to the interest on the thread concerning the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy. But I notice that the distinguished scholar (but an argumentative one - perhaps extremely so) John Churton Collins was involved.

                      Churton Collins was a great debater on English literature matters - to such an extent as to once get under the skin of Max Beerbohm, of all people, who called a lunatic. But he was more than a scholar, writer, and debater. He was a prominent amateur criminologist, and a founding member of the "murder club" known as "Our Society" with Conan Doyle and several others. On one occasion there was a discussion of the 1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders, and he brought in the arm bone of the suspect John Williams who supposedly committed suicide in prison before any trial (P.D. James in her book on the crimes, "The Maul and the Pear Tree" feels Williams was killed in prison by bribed warders, to keep quiet about his knowledge of guilty accomplices). Collins died under somewhat murky circumstances in September 1908. He was fascinated by the Luard Murder Mystery at Sevenoakes in Kent, and had gone to have a look at the locale. He had left his inn, and was last walking about, when he failed to be accounted for after several hours. They found his dead body in a ditch, having fallen in and drowned. It was revealed that he had been ill and taking a medication that may have caused him to fall down in a drowsy state, and fall his face in the water. The inquest said it was a death from "misadventure". However one can't really tell over a century later.

                      Jeff

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                      • Thanks, Jeff. Churton Collins came up earlier in this thread in connection with the "Merstham Tunnel Mystery."

                        A Stratfordian work.

                        The Bacon-Shakspere Question Answered (London: Trubner, 1889, 2nd edition), link
                        by Charlotte Carmichael Stopes

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                        • A series of articles on Shakespeare knowledge of Latin by Churton Collins.


                          The Fortnightly Review, April 1, 1903, Pages 616-637

                          Had Shakespeare Read the Greek Tragedies?

                          Part I

                          by J. Churton Collins


                          The Fortnightly Review, May 1, 1903, Pages 848-858

                          Had Shakespeare Read the Greek Tragedies?

                          Part II

                          by J. Churton Collins


                          The Fortnightly Review, July 1, 1903, Pages 115-131

                          Had Shakespeare Read the Greek Tragedies?

                          Part III

                          by J. Churton Collins


                          J. M. Robertson, a prominent British freethinker argues that Shakespeare did not write one particular play. Robertson was mentioned earlier in this thread in connection with the con artist Springmuhl.


                          Did Shakespeare Write "Titus Andronicus"?; a Study in Elizabethan Literature (London: Watts & Co., 1905), link
                          By John Mackinnon Robertson


                          Greenwood was an anti-Stratfordian who did not advocate for Bacon's authorship.

                          The Shakespeare Problem Restated (London: John Lane, 1908), link
                          By Sir Granville George Greenwood


                          William Shakespeare, Player, Playmaker, and Poet; a Reply to Mr. George Greenwood (New York: John Lane, 1909), link
                          by H. C. Beeching




                          In Re Shakespeare: Beeching V. Greenwood; Rejoinder on Behalf of the Defendant (London: John Lane, 1909), link
                          By Sir Granville George Greenwood


                          Andrew Lang's posthumously published contribution to the Stratfordian cause.


                          Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown (London: Longmans, Green, 1912), link
                          by Andrew Lang


                          Robertson returns. He deems all cryptograms, great or small, unworthy of comment,

                          The Baconian Heresy: A Confutation (New York: Dutton, 1913), link
                          by John Mackinnon Robertson


                          Greenwood strikes back.

                          Is There a Shakespeare Problem?: With a Reply to Mr. J. M. Robertson and Mr. Andrew Lang (London: John Lane, 1916), link
                          By Sir Granville George Greenwood


                          Shakespere's Handwriting (London: John Lane, 1920), link
                          By Sir Granville George Greenwood


                          Shakespeare's Law (London: Cecil Palmer, 1920), link
                          By Sir Granville George Greenwood


                          Ben Jonson and Shakespeare (London: Cecil Palmer, 1921), link
                          By Sir Granville George Greenwood

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                          • Greenwood's book, Shakespeare's Handwriting, was written in response to this book, which argues that handwritten additions made to a manuscript of a play about Thomas More were written by Shakespeare, based on a comparison of the handwriting with 6 known Shakespeare signatures,

                            Shakespeare's Handwriting: A Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916), link
                            By Sir Edward Maunde Thompson


                            The first appearance of the the suggestion that Shakespeare wrote some of the additions to the Thomas More play.

                            Notes and Queries, July 1, 1871, Pages 1-3

                            Are There Any Extant MSS. in Shakespeare's Hand?
                            by Richard Simpson


                            Spedding, a Bacon scholar, but not a Baconian, offered some partial support.


                            Notes and Queries, September 21, 1872, Pages 227-228

                            Shakespeare's Handwriting
                            by James Spedding


                            Spedding references this edition of the play.

                            Sir Thomas More: A Play, Now First Printed (London: Shakespeare Society, 1844), link
                            edited by Alexander Dyce

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                            • Mark Twain

                              Mark Twain wrote an autobiographical work which discusses his interest in the Bacon-Shakepeare controversy dating back to the the days of Delia Bacon. Twain concludes definitely that Shakespeare did not write the plays but says it is possible that Bacon wrote them.


                              Is Shakespeare Dead?: From My Autobiography (New York: Harper, 1909), link
                              By Mark Twain


                              Twain's biography indicates that he was convinced by pre-publication information about Booth's "Acrostic Signatures" books that Bacon did write the plays.


                              Mark Twain, a Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Volumes 3 & 4 (New York: Harper, 1912), Pages 1479-1486
                              By Albert Bigelow Paine

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                              • Even famous people make mistakes

                                Originally posted by TradeName View Post
                                Mark Twain wrote an autobiographical work which discusses his interest in the Bacon-Shakepeare controversy dating back to the the days of Delia Bacon. Twain concludes definitely that Shakespeare did not write the plays but says it is possible that Bacon wrote them.


                                Is Shakespeare Dead?: From My Autobiography (New York: Harper, 1909), link
                                By Mark Twain


                                Twain's biography indicates that he was convinced by pre-publication information about Booth's "Acrostic Signatures" books that Bacon did write the plays.


                                Mark Twain, a Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Volumes 3 & 4 (New York: Harper, 1912), Pages 1479-1486
                                By Albert Bigelow Paine
                                Yes, Mark Twain did become a believer in the Baconian theory of authorship.

                                I have read Helen Keller also did not believe that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.
                                Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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