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Smart is King George's youngest son Prince George. He thought up in his schooldays a way to outwit Queen Mary. She gave him only four shillings a week pocket money, exacted his word of honor not to borrow. Honorable, he priced his own autograph at two bob (shillings), sold as many as he could, clipped his father's autographs out of letters, priced and sold them for a quid (pound), but his mother's autographs he kept. Smart again, the Prince while serving under a British naval captain chosen by Queen Mary, gave his superior officers...
...Many autographs of well-known Harvard and New England figures at contained in the autograph album a the late Charles S. Bowen '71, which has recently been presented to the College Library by Miss Maria Bowen of Cambridge...
Books from Washington's library, several with his autograph on the title page, are new on exhibition in the Treasure Room at the College Library. These include a Latin Lexicon, and a copy of "The Private Life of Lewis XV." Together with early biographies, there is also a copy of his diary, open at the following extract, which refers to a portrait new in Adams House: "Sat from ten to one o'clock for a Mr. Savage, to draw my portrait for the University of Cambridge, in the state of Massachusetts, at the request of the President and Governors...
...that moment Gershwin very obligingly submitted to a host of autograph-seekers who had surrounded him. "Not at all, not at all," and "Yes, of course, I am glad to do it," were his comments as he wrote scores of signatures with various notes on pieces of paper and books. From that point on would-be interviewers were out of the picture, for in a moment he said, "Well, I must be going, I'm supposed to meet Mr. Koussevitzky; he's a great man all right." And thus ended a very brief interview...
Indication of collector's interest in contemporary works is shown by a copy of Ernest Hemingway's first publication. "Three Stories and Ten Poems." 1921, owned by J. Lesser Goldman, some note worthy items of E. A. Robinson, leaned by R. J. Bulkley, Jr. '32 and original autograph letters of John Galsworthy, A. A. Milne and others, the property of W. S. Thomas...