Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

JUNIUS

By W.

The questions asked by your correspondent "P." (No. 18. p. 172.) perplexed by their simplicity. The answer, if answer can be seriously required, was obvious. All that was ever urged in favour of every other claimant was against the claim of Sir George Jackson. Beyond this I know not what reply could be given. Emboldened by silence, "P." now proceeds (p. 276.) to adduce certain evidence which he supposes has some bearing on the question. "I possess," he says, "an unpublished letter by Junius *to* Woodfall, which once belonged to Sir George Jackson. My query is, 'Is it likely he would have obtai…

Topics: Authorship of Junius, Historical Letters, Literary Conjecture