"Your interesting leader of 29 November on Shakespeare's sonnets prompts me to suggest with all due pomp and solemnity another theory about Mr. W.H. I suggest that, like Melchizedek according to Encyclopaedia Biblica he owes his existence to a scribe's error—H for S. Mr. W.S., after all, was certainly the only begetter of these ensuing sonnets." BR's handwriting is involved in the letter.