Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Editor of the Atlantic, who was also a member of the firm of Ticknor and Fields, was a valued and valuable friend to every author of distinction during the middle of the nineteenth century. When they learned of his fondness for the original manuscripts of famous books, they gave him the best they had saved from the printer and furnace-man. Lowell sent him the Second Series of the 'Bigelow Papers,' 'as a trifling acknowledgment of many substantial obligations,' and Holmes inscribed the manuscript of 'The Guardian Angel' as 'A token of kind regard from one of many writers...
...Hawthorne's manuscript of 'The House of the Seven Gables' contains a letter from the author suggesting possible titles for this romance. 'The one selected,' he wrote, 'is rather the best; and has the great advantage that it would puzzle the devil to tell what it means.' Nearly hidden at the end of this volume, is the poem, in its author's handwriting, which Longfellow wrote upon the death of Hawthorne...
...Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha.' Charles Reade's first draft of 'The Box Tunnel' is accompanied by two letters, expressing his appreciation of the fact that the Boston firm had 'taken up an author on your own judgment instead of waiting until sixteen old women had waited for some echo and echoed it and called it their verdict.' Emerson is represented by 'The Titmouse' and also by the loose and printer-thumbed sheets of an article hurriedly written in the hours following the arrival...
...Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V,' which supplements most satisfactorily the Byron first editions which Harvard received with the library of Harry Widener. The first page of this copy is covered by a note in Byron's handwriting, as attested by the publisher, John Murray. In this the author implores 'those superior persons--the publisher and printer--that they will in future, less misspell, misplace, mistake, and mis-everything, the humbled M.S.S. of their humble Servant. Oct. 26th, 1821.' There are three volumes of Wordsworth's Poems, one of them made up of several 'first editions' as published separately...
...Meeting of Harvard Poetry Society at Boston Author's Club...