Kansas Physician Confirms Howard Report

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

http://www.pbs.org/show/shakespeares-tomb/

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.

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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).

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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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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

https://books.google.com/books?id=l9hNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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

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.