Word: autographing
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...Carlyle. Next you turn to a glass case which contains many a precious book, whose leaves have been thumbed by men whose names have been household words for centuries. Here is the old Indian Bible of that heroic soul, John Eliot; also the Bible of John Bunyan, with his autograph on the title page, which bears the date 1637. The Bay Psalm Book, the first work published in America, must not escape your attention...
Several valuable autograph letters of Christopher Clumbus have recently been presented to the library...
...most interesting case of all, perhaps, is that containing autograph letters and poems. Here are collected letters from O. W. Holmes. Jefferson, Washington, John Quincy Adams, and a note from A. Lincoln, inviting the Hon. C. Sumner to accompany him "for half an hour" to the inaugural ball, March 5, 1865. There is also a finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some...
...names have been cut out, and in these instances a note at the top tells us of the day of the mutilation, and states that the name thus lost is known to the librarian. After losing a number of names in this way, and after having left his own autograph on as many pages, the librarian adopted the ingenious method of tearing out the page on which an illustrious visitor had left his marks, and of restoring the leaves after the rage for autographs had departed from the breasts of the kleptomaniacs. Thus we find the Duke Alexis...
...time. The one place, perhaps, most unfamiliar to the average student and most frequented by strangers is the visitors' room. Here are collected more articles of interest to the student of Harvard's history than perhaps in the entire remainder of the building. The class albums; the autograph letters of celebrated graduates, such as Sumner, Emerson, etc., etc., and the visitors' book, are but a few of these objects. For those who have never been in this most interesting room I may be permitted to describe a few of its many attractions. The visitors' book is one of the most...