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published an exposure of what he thought
was an elaborate and deliberate fraud. A copy of this "Inquiry
into the Authenticity &c," was purchased
by S. Ireland, and now forms the
chief item of a most curious section
in this collection of Shakesperiana; The book is
thickly covered with his autographic
notes in ink, and they show a
warmth of vigorous protest, and
a love of fight, which make them
quite cheerful reading, in the cold
of a Canadian winter.

With this unique and personal
work is bound up (in crushed
green morrocco) the "reply" he printed,
title. "Mr Ireland's vindication
of his conduct"; - and the book
(in this shape) has been in the
libraries of those zealous Shakesperians
Dawson Turner, and Col. Alexander
Nicholson of Melton.

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