Shakespeare's insomnia and the causes thereof / by Franklin H. Head.

  • Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey), 1832-1914.
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Shakespeare's insomnia and the causes thereof / by Franklin H. Head. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dwelt. We beg you to straightway name to us your solicitors, that we may confer with them and attend to the issuance of the writs. I have aimed to select from the letters sent me only those bearing on some trouble tending to cause sleeplessness on the part of the poet, but make an exception in case of a letter of Sir Walter Raleigh, next in chronological order, which refers to matters of general interest. The Mermaid, March 20, 1609. To William Shakespeare: Full well do I know, my dearest Will, that often hast thou wondered of the fate of thy £50, which, with a hundred times as much of mine own, was adventured to found an empire in America. Great were our hopes, both of glory and of gold, in the kingdom of Powhatan. But it grieves me much to say that all hath resulted