Excerpt from The Casket Letters and Mary Queen of Scots: With Appendices The question as to whether Dr. Bresslau or I was the first to make historical use of Morton's narrative is scarcely even a Side issue. I am therefore the more surprised that Mr. Skelton Should have felt himself called upon to make against me on this score an insinua tion which he was confessedly unable to prove. I am not sure, he writes, that Mr. Henderson's claim to the copyright of the discovery will be admitted without protest. If M. Philippson at ...
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Excerpt from The Casket Letters and Mary Queen of Scots: With Appendices The question as to whether Dr. Bresslau or I was the first to make historical use of Morton's narrative is scarcely even a Side issue. I am therefore the more surprised that Mr. Skelton Should have felt himself called upon to make against me on this score an insinua tion which he was confessedly unable to prove. I am not sure, he writes, that Mr. Henderson's claim to the copyright of the discovery will be admitted without protest. If M. Philippson at least is to be believed, Morton's narrative had been largely used by Bresslau so long ago as 1882 Then follows a passage from M. Philippson, which, however, contains no such statement as that which Mr. Skelton attributes to him. M. Philippson certainly quotes a summary Of the document from Dr. Bresslau. But what summary? Merely the summary given in the Fifth Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission Not only so, but Dr. Bresslau himself states, immediately after the passage quoted by M. Philippson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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