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REED-L: Correction here, from the source! Elza C. Tiner -----Original Message----- From: James Knowles [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:27 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Jonson Texts Dear Professor Tiner, A colleague of mine here at Newcastle showed me your e-mail on (I think) the REED mailing list about the "Jonson" texts announced by 'The Guardian' last week. I am sorry to tell you that all is not as it should be. Professor Martin Butler (Leeds University), one of the general editors of the Cambridge Ben Jonson (for which I am editing the masques) contacted Wiltshire County Record Office and he has faxed me with the material he received from them. I can confirm that these are not lost texts and certainly not manuscripts. The Wilton 'discovery' is, in fact, pages from the folio of 1640 '(The Fortunate Isles' and 'Love's Triumph'). The binding, moreover, is not contemporary but C19th. I will leave it to you to speculate how a supposedly trained archivist at Wilton, members of the staff of a CRO, 'experts' at Christies, and staff at a national newspaper could manage to contrive such a farrago of error. Perhaps you could pass this information onwards? Yours, Dr James Knowles, Lecturer in English.