WS was a notoriously bad speller

Interesting...Eugene O'Neill, our second US Nobel laureate, was, self-admittedly, a horrible speller! His wife Carlotta would edit and type-up all his hand-written pages for him (he preferred to work in longhand... using plenty of pre-sharpened pencils). But speling was knot his cup of tee! It's hard for me to imagine being such a proficient writer and not being able to spell well. But there's Will and Gene, so there you have it.