Word: dario
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After the proverbial "sleepless night," Whitesell returned in the morning and compared the handwriting in the book to known samples of Dario's writing and found them to be identical...
...very intrigued and a bit skeptical," Whitesell said. "It didn't seem to be that I could just open a book and find manuscript poetry from Ruben Dario...
...looked at Dario's collected poems and found that two had been previously published," he says. "Here were the earliest known drafts with textual differences, but the final two I couldn't find anywhere. They were presumably unknown and unpublished...
...confirm his hunch that the University's holdings contained book's from Dario's personal library, Whitesell hunted through Harvard College Library's acquisition records and found correspondence between a book seller in Madrid and the University in 1916, the year of Dario's death...
Whitesell then examined each book for signs that it once belonged to Dario, growing increasingly confident that at least 43 of the 180 had once been part of Dario's personal library...