A GOOD FRIEND
AND
A FINE SCHOLAR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Among the many friends who have patiently or enthusiastically, as the case might be, read my essay on Marlowe's assassination, and who have freely expressed their views on my theory and ungrudgingly argued the subject with me, raising and meeting difficulties, I am especially obliged to Professor Joseph Quincy Adams, Mr. Max I. Baym, Professor Joseph Vincent Crowne, Mr. Alexander Green, Professor E. H.C. Oliphant, and Professor Ashley H. Thorndike. Others to whom I am indebted are the distinguished physicians whose opinions I quote in Appendix A. In common with the rest of the literary world, I am grateful to Professor James Leslie Hotson, whose inspiration, intelligence and perseverance brought to light the new documents in the case—the Coroner's report and the Queen's pardon.
S.A.T.
April 1928.
THE ASSASSINATION OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE