Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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Clippings related primarily to William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and word games such as anagrams and acrostics. Clippings regarding Bacon also include an extensive amount of Covert's notations.

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Correspondence from Dr. Siegfried Aram to Walter Arensberg.

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Correspondence from Dr. Siegfried Aram to Walter Arensberg.

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Correspondence from Lawrence Clark Powell, Librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, to Walter Arensberg.

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Correspondence from Walter Arensberg to Dr. Siegfried Aram.

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Correspondence from Walter Arensberg to Erwin Rosenthal.

Abstract The painter John Raphael Covert was an active participant in the American avant-garde art movement between 1915 and 1923. He later became a traveling salesman for his family's Vesuvius Crucible Company and pursued his intense interest in cryptography, word games and magic squares. The John Raphael Covert Papers consist of the artist's correspondence, word and number puzzles (such as anagrams, acrostics, and riddles), financial records, photographic portraits, and a few sketches....

Scope and Contents Comprised of magic squares, acrostics, anagrams, mathematical calculations and riddles. The vast majority of these word and number puzzles relate directly to the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy that both Covert and his cousin, Walter Arensberg, felt could be solved through the use of acrostics and other word puzzles. Also includes a cipher key for a code Covert developed based on his Social Security number.Because of the highly specialized format of this material, researchers...