1. This is the preliminary statement Bacon set down while still in the U.S. She wrote to Emerson, 12 Nov., that she had left with TC “the paper I read to you … in Cambridge.” TC enclosed a letter to himself from Bacon, from 39
Devonshire St., 8 Aug., saying that though she could not “summon courage enough to call for my Manuscript in person,” she wanted TC “to understand
that it is designed as an introductory flourish only,—merely to strike a little awe into the hearts of the multitude, and
to put the old Shakespeare people on the defensive, while I bring out my evidence at my leisure. / But here while I am all
in the dark as to the impression it makes on you, I do not like to presume, or seem to presume that you will show it any favor.
Perhaps however under the circumstances, that is not implied in saying that if you think Mr Milnes would be interested in
it, I should be glad to have you communicate it to him. As I have had no introduction to him, I should not like to send it
to him myself.” Milnes returned Bacon's preliminary statement, 22 Aug., with good wishes and hoping that she would find more evidence (Vivian C. Hopkins, Prodigal Puritan: A Life of Delia Bacon [Cambridge, Mass., 1959], 181).
2. Edward Everett, U.S. minister to Great Britain, 1841–45. Bacon had asked TC to “send it to Mr Milnes with the manuscript, he will perhaps call on me when he has read them.” She
did not use Everett's intro. to Panizzi.
