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unusual facts about Philalethes


Richard Gwinnett

Their letters were subsequently published in two volumes entitled 'Pylades and Corinna; or memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of R. G. and Mrs. E. Thomas, jun.… containing the letters and other miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse, which passed between them during a Courtship of above sixteen years … Published from their original manuscripts (by Philalethes) … To which is prefixed the life of Corinna, written by herself.'


1650 in poetry

Thomas Vaughan writing under the pen name "Eugenius Philalethes", Anthroposophia Theomagica; or, A Discourse of the Nature of Man and his State After Death

Ireland Shakespeare forgeries

Colonel Francis Webb, writing under the name "Philalethes," argued that as the paper was old the documents must have belonged to Shakespeare's time; there would have been no reason to forge them then; therefore they must be genuine.


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