William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . ion. Thisroom has been a place eagerly sought by literarypilgrims since the beginning of the century. Thelow ceiling and the walls were covered, in the earlypart of the century, with innumerable 1820 the occupant, a woman who attached greatimportance to the privilege of showing the house tovisitors, was compelled to give up that privilege,and, by way of revenge, removed the furniture andwhitewashed the walls of the house. A part of thewall of the upper room escaped the sacrilegioushand of the jealous custodian, and names runningback
William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . ion. Thisroom has been a place eagerly sought by literarypilgrims since the beginning of the century. Thelow ceiling and the walls were covered, in the earlypart of the century, with innumerable 1820 the occupant, a woman who attached greatimportance to the privilege of showing the house tovisitors, was compelled to give up that privilege,and, by way of revenge, removed the furniture andwhitewashed the walls of the house. A part of thewall of the upper room escaped the sacrilegioushand of the jealous custodian, and names runningback to the third decade of the last century arestill to be found there. Other and perhaps more BIRTH AND BREEDING Z1 famous names have taken the places of those whichwere erased, and the walls are now a mass of hiero-glyphs. Scott, Byron, Rogers, Tennyson, Thack-eray, Dickens, have left this record of their interestin the room. No new names are now written onthese blackened walls; the names of visitors arekept in a record-book on the lower THE ROOM IN WHICH SHAKESPEARE WAS BORN. In a small room behind the birth-room what isknown as the Stratford portrait of the poet isshown. On the first floor, opening from the roominto which the visitor enters, is a larger room inwhich are collected a number of very interestingarticles connected with the poet. There are to beseen the deed which conveyed the property to hisfather; the letter in which Richard Quiney, whose 38 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE son Thomas married the poets youngest daughter,Judith, in 1616, asked him for a loan of money; theseal ring on which the letters W. S. are engraved;the desk which stood in the Grammar School threehundred years ago; and many other curiosities,memorials, documents, and books which find properplace in such a museum. In the garden, sweet withthe fragrant breath of summer, there are pansies •• V
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