Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...manuscript copy of the laws of Harvard College in 1655 has recently been found among the papers of a deceased member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. It has been edited and published with an introduction by Dr. S. A. Greene, mayor of Boston and graduate of Harvard, to whom we are indebted for a copy...
...harsher sex, have the liberty to publish anything we please in our college papers, we are sorry to learn that the same privilege is not enjoyed by the fair publishers and editresses of the Lasell Leaves. They, poor aspirants for journalistic fame, are obliged to subject all their manuscript and "copy" to the judgment of one who has the right to cut and slash the scented, pink-paper copy as he sees fit, and who, no doubt, in this manner robs the Leaves of many of its best articles, and certainly of its originality. The fairness of this...
...them. For the first, $1,190 was paid; for the second, $177; for the third, $363; for the fourth, $120. Cardinal Ximenez's Polyglot Bible, in six volumes, fetched $830; Cicero's Letters, first edition (Rome, 1470), $135; the first edition of Homer, $355, and Wycliffe's New Testament, (manuscript, about...
...librarian himself at Cambridge University is required to give a bond of pound100 before he is allowed to draw a particularly valuable manuscript from the library...
Just here the managing editor snatched the manuscript and lighted his cigarette with it. Here was destroyed also some other material entitled "Patients," which was, perhaps, merely a prescription for the cure of ennui...