The Great Hoax

Harvard proudly announces her acquisition of a splendid collection of the renowned Shakespeare forgeries which were foisted upon a blinking world in the eighteenth century by William Henry Ireland. This assortment is extremely complete, and includes bogus manuscripts, letters, and signatures. Now is the time for some scholar to bring endless discomfiture to the banks of the Charles, by proving that the collection is genuine, and, therefore, spurious. -The Cornell Sun,