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...accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some letters from Emmanuel Kant to the grandfather of Prof. H. A. Hagen of Harvard are here preserved. Here, too, is Longfellow's first draft of "Excelsior." dated "Sept. 28, 1841. Half-past three in morning." It is written on the back of a letter addressed to him by Charles Sumner. The two lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD LIBRARY. | 3/5/1883 | See Source »

...Steamer Excelsior, plying between Washington and Norfolk, was run into by a government tug yesterday and cut down to the water's edge. No lives lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 12/5/1882 | See Source »

...recent Literary World contains an article on the manuscripts of Longfellow's "Excelsior," the first draft of which is preserved in the Harvard Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/21/1882 | See Source »

Contrary to the general impression, there are many students' journals in England published at the different schools and colleges, though none, we believe at Oxford or Cambridge. The names of some of these papers are: The Bathonian, Durham University Journal, Epsomian, Excelsior, Mill Hill, Merchant Company's Schools' Magazine, Pelican, Queen's College Magazine, Reptonian, Rossalian, School Magazine, the Ladies' College Magazine, Cheltenham, and Our Magazine, published at the North London Collegiate School for Girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/22/1882 | See Source »

...WILSON, Tiffin, Ohio, says : I have worn an Improved Excelsior Kidney Pad, and received more relief than from all remedies I have ever tried. I cheerfully recommend it to all sufferers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

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