52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 42: How to read minds!

Echoes from the Vault

“I’ll know thy thoughts.” – Othello, act iii. scene 3.

The Lighting the Past team has been working its way through the sizeable Reserve Collection of Shakespeare pamphlets and ephemera for some time.  There was a moment where we thought we had finished cataloguing the whole collection, only to realise that the other half of the collection was stored somewhere else and we had many, many more Shakespeare pamphlets to catalogue…

We were working on this Shakespeare collection one day in July on what we then thought was our last box of pamphlets, Number 20, labelled: ‘Miscellaneous’.  At the bottom of the box we noticed a small object.  We lifted out the little paper envelope with its portrait of a rather debonair Shakespeare.

Pic 1 Cover_1 The puzzle envelope, complete with debonair Shakespeare. Top right can be seen the stamp of the Shakespeare Memorial Association, a previous owner of the puzzle…

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