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...Krasnya's account bristled with suspiciously circumstantial details about a certain "orthodox nun" who claims to have ministered to the Imperial family up to the last moment. She is said to possess a letter in the autograph of the Tsar written to several would-be rescuers at Ekaterinburg: "The cherished moment has arrived; you will be able to act. The seventh and eighth windows from the main entrance are now always open. Our guards consist of 13 men armed with revolvers and bombs. All the keys are with the Commandant, who treats us well enough...
...meet a ready-made bride." 2) Eve may have had daughters unmentioned in the Bible. But "for many years the human mind has shrunk sensitively away from the idea of confusing the beautiful relation of brother and sister with the other relation of husband and wife." 3) The "original autograph" theory - i. e., the Bible as originally dictated by God, contained no mistakes and no hiati, but parts of it have been lost in transmission. But, says Mr. Shipman, "to conclude that the original autograph was perfect and entire, lacking nothing of being absolutely correct astronomy, geology, zoology, biology, geography...
Another item is an autograph album, belonging to a Neapolitan gentleman, in which Milton, while travelling in Italy, inscribed his name and the closing verses of "Cosmus...
...autograph sale in Paris, it became known that Premier Poincare had signed his name so often during his 63 years that his autographs would not fetch as much as $2 apiece. Benito Mussolini's signature, however, fetched almost $6, while Kipling's brought nearly as much as Napoleon's, at about $19. But the autograph of Nietzsche surpassed them all, an admirer buying...
...also included in the exhibition. Among them are a drawing of Harvard Hall in the New York Harvard Club, presented by the Club; the volume bearing the name of John Eliot, the Apostio of the Indians, a gift from Dr. James B. Munn '12 of New York; and an autograph of Sir Walter Mildmay, the founder of Emmanuel College, given to President Eliot by Mr. Issac N. Lewis...