Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English Men of Letter series "Charles Lamb," by A. Ainger, is the latest issue. In the Golden Treasury series selections from Landor by Sidney Colvin, Professor of Art at Cambridge, and selections from Mahomet by S. L. Poole, are announced...
...letter, just received by a gentleman at Hartford from a friend in China, tells what the students, lately recalled from this country, are doing. Fifty-one have been distributed as follows: Twenty to the telegraph office, eight to the medical school, ten to the torpedo school, seven to the mining school, four to the customs department, and two to the government docks. The rest, about forty in number, are in the naval school in Tientsin. A letter from one of the students indicates that the official wrath has been somewhat appeased by the discovery that the boys have not foresworn...
...object of suspicion. His position was embarrasing, and the conduct of his brethren inexplicable. In vain he sought to make himself agreeable or useful, and when at last he was constrained to make a formal demand, he was informed that a few days before his arrival a letter had been received from the president of the college which he professed to represent, stating that he should be unable to attend, and that a man who was unfortunately out of his mind was travelling around the country pretending to be the president of the college and would very likely present himself...
Just as we are going to press another letter comes from a prominent initial...
...Heliotype Printing Co. have issued a circular letter to members of '82, requesting to be released from their proposal, and contradicting Pach's statement that the pictures are reversed in the heliotype process...