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Show Shakespeare's Writing Tells of Fatal Worry None of Sluikesppare's works in the poet's own handwriting are now in existence, hut there are in existence hooks which belonged to Shakespeare and in which he wrote. These two conclusions have been reached by Dr. Samuel A. Tannenhaum. Shakespearean Shakespear-ean authority. Doctor Tannonbamn has made a close scrutiny nf the six indubitable specimens of Shakespeare's Shakes-peare's handwriting; the l.ree signatures sig-natures in the will in Soniom et house and on the three documents, one on each at Guildhall. I'.ritish museum, and public record oliice. He demonstrates demon-strates that the poet's handwriting shows characteristics that belong to sufferers from angina pectoris, and that the poet died of this disease, brought on. probably, by domestic worries, his younger daughter having married a man unworthy of her. |