Word: handwritten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief handwritten autobiography of the noted "dime novelist," Boratio Alger '52, written while he was a student, is also on exhibit in Widener with a collection of historic relics of the past century of student life at Harvard...
Kipling's handwritten copy of "Recessional" composed in 1897, reveals that the author had originally intended entitling the poem "After." This copy was retrieved from Kipling's wastebasket by the late Sara Norton, of Cambridge, daughter of Charles Eliot Norton '46, and friend of the Kiplings. Miss Norton was visiting the Kiplings in 1897 at the time Kipling was writing "Recessional" and when he threw a draft of the poem into the wastebasket, she recovered the page, and the author allowed her to keep...
...Just as the automobile drove the less convenient horse and buggy off the street, as the steamship out-sailed the sailing ship, as the printed book displaced the handwritten manu script, so will radio outdo the slower, more expensive and cumbersome newspaper, as a distributor of news...
...your popular Democratic Candidate for Governor, California will have a combination of leaders in Washington and Sacramento who can cooperate in the best interest of the people of the State and Nation." The signature was in green ink, "James A. Farley." At the bottom of the letter was a handwritten postscript, also in green ink: "Friends of the Administration in Washington will be gratified for all your efforts...
...When newspaper stories were handwritten, "x" meant the end of a sentence, "xx" the end of a paragraph, "xxx" (Roman for "30") the end of the story...