Lord Salisbury, M.F.H. "CONFOUND THOSE YOUNG HOUNDS!—THEY'RE TAKING A LINE OF THEIR OWN!!"
PIG-HEADED ATTACK ON THE IMMORTAL BARD.
A DISPUTED WILL.
Dear Sir,—Mr. Donnelly's cryptogram, showing Bacon to be the author of all Shakspeare's plays, is a wonderful discovery. The principle only needs to be applied with sufficient ingenuity and perseverance, to revolutionise the whole field of literary history. I myself have only had time to apply it in a few instances, but have already got the really valuable result that Negretti and Zambra wrote most of the works of Milton. Day and Martin Luther wrote Sandford and Merton, and Sir Walter Scott wrote the ballad with the refrain "Two Lovely Black Eyes." Charles Thackeray's works were entirely written by William Makepeace Dickens. Hence the cryptogrammatic name. I am working as hard at the theory as the somewhat unelastic rules of this establishment will permit, and this morning I caught a cryptogram crawling up the window-pane. Aha! excuse my glove, I must dissemble,
Colney-Hatchwell. Yours, The "B" in Both.