W. J. Lawrence letter to William Archer, 1919 April 29

              2007-0344 Lower Mount t. Dublin, A.pril 29 t h 1919. My dear A.rcher: The find Dibdin told you of was made on the other side and duly exploded in a lecture given at nearly all the principal American Universities. The ~rofess0rs all preserved a discreet silence save Kittredge of Harvard who was openly eulegistic I have recast the matter in essay form & sent it in to The Nineteenth Century, but a1 though two months have e lapsed the " di tor makes no sign. Here is the gist Qf the find. Dekkee, Marston & the anonymous author of Histriomastix mentions a specialized kind of comedy, highly ,o -ular from c. 1.597 to 1601, which they characterize as 'the nocturnal' (using the word as a substantive) Creizenach des~airs of a definition of this form, but I was enabled to deduce its farmula and to advance some-noted exam~les. My der Lnf t Lon of the nocturnal is Ita species of comedy, rustic or urban, presenting an unbroken sequence of more or less com~licated night-scenes extending