Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that two of his diaries containing a description of a journey in Congo have been put on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library this week. The diaries contain not only accounts of the journey, but also maps, profile sections, and travelling directions. An early and much interlined draft of "Lord Jim" is also being exhibited. This draft is scribbled in a commonplace blank book which contains a few extracts in Polish, possibly in his mother's hand...
...else. . . . You are young. Old Europe can teach you spiritual education. . . . "But you have been very kind to me! The hotel keepers learned, for example, about my dislike for warm rooms and adjusted the heat accordingly. You know, I am descended from Queen Victoria, who always sat in a draft, and I so often long for my grandmamma's draft...
...buildings, selection of a capable faculty, and in attempting to make his university a true seat of newworld culture. But his solution of the food problem, of so much interest to the modern collegian, remains a secret. There is, on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener, a draft of a letter written by the Great Democrat to a friend concerning menus at the University...
...complete draft of the letter follows: Monticello, June...
...Draft. "Mrs. Houston remarked that we seemed to be making many mistakes; a French officer rejoined that we did not invent any; the Allies had anticipated...