One last gift.(Ruth Loyd Miller)(Obituary)

HOSE who engage in the study of the Shakespearean authorship owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the life and work of Oxfordian pioneer Ruth Loyd Miller, who passed from this life in September of last year. Not only for the depth of her scholarship and for her dedication to the preservation and distribution of the seminal works of J. Thomas Looney, B.M. Ward and Eva Turner Clark, but also for her personal commitment to the education and generous encouragement of all those who came to her with a sincere expression of interest in the life and works of Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford. She was for many of us a teacher and way-shower of uncommon vitality, wisdom, humor and grace.

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