Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to these, there are a complete set of English and American first editions, the original manuscript of "Benefit of Clergy", presented by Amy Lowell, the original manuscript of "Recessional", and many letters of Kipling's father, as well as the copyright pamphlets and corrected proof sheets...
...done that they gave every evidence of authenticity. They included, among other things, portions of Shakespeare's correspondence with Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Southampton, the Earl of Leicester and others of note, as well as a number of signatures allegedly those of Shakespeare. A page of the original manuscript of "Hamlet", which, if authentic, would be of immense value, was among the papers. There was a love letter to Anne Hathaway and a tribute to an ancestor of Ireland's for having saved Shakespeare's life, a device used by Ireland to strengthen his story. The author even went...
Suit was brought in London against Mrs. Alfred Noyes, wife of the poet, by a Mrs. Lillian Westby, who wanted $4,160 for her services in bidding up a rare manuscript, the Bedford Book of Hours, then owned by Mrs. Noyes, in an auction in July, 1929, against an agent for John Pierpont Morgan. The Morgan agent finally bought the manuscript for $165,000. Mrs. Noyes testified that Mrs. Westby simply had acted upon her suggestion that someone start the bidding, that no fee had been stipulated...
...Butterfly), who told how she had been betrayed by a Russian officer. Some years afterward, said Mrs. Correll, she was in Philadelphia and told the story to her lawyer brother, the late John Luther Long. He sat up all that night. At breakfast he showed his sister a completed manuscript of a story called Madame Butterfly, with the Russian changed to U. S. officer...
...agree," replied Mme Joffre. "My husband reread and revised each page of his manuscript not once but dozens of times before he finally initialed it. It is evident that the Marshal wished every word to appear exactly as he left it in the final text. ' My husband's memoirs, Madame, will appear unexpurgated...