Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography

From Chapter 1: "A friend has sent me a new book, from England--The Shakespeare Problem Restated--well restated and closely reasoned; and my fifty years'' interest in that matter--asleep for the last three years--is excited once more. It is an interest which was born of Delia Bacon''s book--away back in that ancient day--1857, or maybe 1856.
About a year later my pilot-master, Bixby, transferred ...