Autograph letter signed from Horace Howard Furness, Wallingford, to Mr. Ellis D. Robb, Eldora, 1894 September 26 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Furness writes: "I prefer to read Shakespeare's plays for the sake of the plays themselves, for their own charms, and beauties and grandeur - not for anything outside or external. The plays were written to make money and fill the theatre, not to teach history or illustrate morals ..." On letterhead of Wallingford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Addressed to Ellis in Eldora, Iowa