Category Letters of Edward de Vere
The crown or coronet signature from the 4th Danvers Escheat letter
Roger Stritmatter In a Winter 2022 Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Newsletter article, “Who Wrote George Peele’s “Only Extant Letter,” Robert Prechter conducts an analysis claiming to establish that a 1595 letter sent to William Cecil, describing a literary work written by… Continue Reading →
The post includes high resolution photos of de Vere’s 4th Danvers Escheat letter, which includes the proverb, “finis coronat opus,” “the end crowns the work.” The proverb is repeated with variation in Shakespeare at least three times.
In coming weeks and months I hope to bring you many letters of Edward de Vere, of which well over 40 survive in various archive. Transcriptions of these letters are available on Nina Green’s archive, but nowhere on the web… Continue Reading →
Contains an image and text of Edward de Vere’s last surviving letter, written to James I on January 30, 1603.