Henslowe's Notebook

The notebook of Douglas Henslowe, found buried in a box in the Henslowe family cemetery. A combination diary and sketchbook that detailed Henslowe’s memories of the investigation he undertook with Walter Winston and company in ’24, written in a mad shorthand in a jumbled stream of thoughts. It contained pages and pages of sketches, drawn presumably from Henslowe’s memory, of gruesome, violent images of figures dancing or writhing against huge, licking flames. Another disturbing theme throughout included various drawings of a multi-limbed, headless form with arms, or tentacles, or legs, ending in dripping mouths, biting off heads and tearing human figures apart. The notes also made mention of the three other members, Vince Stack, Katherine Clark and Franklin Cormac Kullman.