Word: autographer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scholars from the Leyton County High School stood in a respectful row last week to receive the official inspection of His Royal Highness Edward of Wales. As H. R. H. passed down the line, one Geoffrey Gill, 15, piped: "Please, Sir, mayn't I have your autograph...
British newspapers headlined the incident. The father of Improper Geoffrey wrote to St. James's Palace, asking if the Prince had really been annoyed by the request. Result: a two-page autograph letter for Improper Geoffrey, marked "Strictly Private, Not for Publication," and Geoffrey's hasty reinstatement in the school...
There is also a copy owned by Don Diego Cruzat of Pamplona. Navarre, whose ancestors fought in the Holy Land. This gentleman superimposed his escutcheon above the author's autograph, evidently believing it to be of greater importance. He was permitted to add the border azure, three Jerusalem crosses, to his escutcheon...
...popularity. But Poet Payne, who also spent most of his life away from his native U. S., was a homeless, often unhappy, expatriate, visited by the nostalgia which led him to write his famed song. When he met Mrs. Bates she asked him to inscribe the words in her autograph book. He did so, composed the two special stanzas, concluded: "I have added a few words more, addressed to you .... What this trifle wants in poetry you will do me the justice to believe is made up in truth." He died in Tunis...
...Miss Greenaway's work, while Tenniel is very well represented in the Lewis Carroll collection made by Harcourt Amory, '76, and given in his memory by Mrs. Amory and their children. The other two, Crane and Caldecott, are thoroughly taken care of by the books, original drawings, and autograph letters given last autumn by A. H. Parker '97, to form the Caroline Miller Parker collection in the Harvard Library. Mr. Parker's gift includes a fund of $5000 to assure the permanent well-being of these treasures, and he has also recently made a number of most important additions, among...