Mr Steggle suggests that Mrs Shakespeare’s movements should be reconsidered in view of her “possible absence from London instead of her eternal absence.”
The memorandum for Mrs. Shakespeare concerned money for a fatherless child named John, who was a student, although not under the famous playwright, with the surname “Butte” or “Butts.” It called her to pay money that was most likely to be trusted for him, a promise that her husband may have undertaken, and it referred to a time when she “lived in Trinition Lane,” of which Mr Steggle believes it refers to a location in London.
The book that the letter was holding was a 1608 text printed by Richard Field, a resident of Stratford, who, according to Mr Steggle, was the employee, neighbor and first printer of Shakespeare. Wast paper was often used in bookbinding and “given Field’s extensive famous ties with the Shakespeares”, the discovery of their family documents in a work he published, indicates that it was probably addressed to the famous Mrs. Shakespeare, Mr Steggle said. In particular, the reaction that seems to come from her sounds “organized, businesslike and rather sarcastic,” he added.
As for John Butts, the child in the letter, his name appeared in a record of 1607 of an institution that, among other things, disciplined disobedient students, and Mr Steggle said that his last name arose in “Shakespeare’s extensive personal network”.
“The bet is high,” writes Mr Steggle in his newspaper. “This letter, if it belongs to them, offers a glimpse of the Shakespeares together in London, both involved in social networks and business affairs, and, on the occasion of this request, presenting a united front against importunate requests to help bad orphans.”
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