Chapter I: Part I

Contains extracts from the Bi-literal, with Bacon’s instructions and the Keys by which this Tragedy has been extracted fully illustrating the Word Cipher method of its reconstruction.

An appendix gives the editions used and pages on which may be found the scattered sections brought together in new sequence to form the new play.

Included in Part I will also be found the decipherings made by Mrs. Gallup in the British Museum subsequent to the publication of the Second Edition of the _Bi-literal Cypher_, and are from Old Editions appearing between 1579 and 1590, establishing the earliest dates this Cypher appeared. They are placed here for the convenience of these having Second Editions only.

_THE TRAGICAL HISTORIE_

OF OUR LATE BROTHER,

ROBERT, EARL OF ESSEX.

Deciphered by _Orville W. Owen, M. D._ One of the Historical Dramas in Cipher.

_THE HISTORICAL TRAGEDY OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS._

Deciphered by _Orville W. Owen, M. D._ One of the Historical Dramas in Cipher.

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CONTENTS

(OF THIS VOLUME)

Frontispiece Portrait Elizabeth Wells Gallup

Announcements 6

Title Page “The Bi-literal Cypher” 11

(Plates from the book)

Contents of “Bi-literal Cypher”

Personal 15

Publishers Note. Third Edition 19

De Augmentis, Original Title page 1624 21

Cyphars in Advancement of Learning, 1605 22

Cyphars in De Augmentis, Wats Translation, 1640 23

Bi-literarie Alphabet 24

Bi-formed Alphabet 25

Cicero’s First Epistle--Method of deciphering 26

Cicero’s First Epistle--Cipher infold 27

Tragedy of Anne Boleyn 29

(Plates from the book)

Preface 30

Argument of the Play 35

Keys for Deciphering 38

FROM MAGAZINES, ETC.

BACONIANA--LONDON:

Elizabeth Wells Gallup--Descriptive 43
--Explanatory 122
--Henry VII. 222

Editorial--Book Review 74
Cannonbury Tower 227

D. J. Kindersley--Henry VII. 218

COURT JOURNAL--LONDON:

Fleming Fulcher Review 81

COSMOPOLITAN--NEW YORK:

Garrett P. Serviss Review 112

FREE PRESS--DETROIT:

Editorial, Book Review 69

LITERARY WORLD--LONDON:

Elizabeth Wells Gallup. Replies I-II. 150

NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER-LONDON:

W. H. Mallock, Review 94

NEW YORK TIMES--LITERARY REVIEW:

Elizabeth Wells Gallup--Reply to C. L. Dana 163

PALL MALL MAGAZINE--LONDON:

Elizabeth Wells Gallup--Descriptive 51
Explanatory 126

TIMES--LONDON:

Elizabeth W. Gallup 144

W. H. Mallock 169

A. P. Sinnett 172

A. P. Sinnett 176

Parker Woodward 175

REPLIES TO CRITICISMS:

Elizabeth Wells Gallup 179

Illustration of Method 198

Fac-Simile Plates De Augmentis Scientiarum, London
Ed., 1623 201

Fac-Simile Plates Paris Ed., 1624 205

Henry Irving, Princeton Address 211

Bi-literal Cypher

of

Sir Francis Bacon

discovered in his works

AND DECIPHERED BY

_MRS. ELIZABETH WELLS GALLUP_

THIRD EDITION

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