Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mark Twain was doing all right. A Tom Sawyer manuscript that had sold for $1,850 ten years ago was auctioned in Manhattan...
...preface to the new 141-page psalter is a letter from Chiang to his great & good friend, Translator Wu, with a photostat of one of the Generalissimo's own editorial emendations brushed on the manuscript's wide margin. Says the letter...
After discovering the manuscript in the archives of Houghton Library, the theatre group learned that the play is slated for a New York production late in the spring. Nevertheless, Maxwell Perkins '06, literary executor of the Wolfe estate, gave the student thespians the rights for a pre-Broadway showing...
When Madame de Pompadour's pet Comte de Buffon began the first encyclopedic natural history, he simplified his task by casually describing each species in terms of one specimen. Two centuries later, Picasso has embellished the Count's manuscript in the same spirit: by etching each creature with easy, sometimes careless familiarity, as if it were an ancient inhabitant of his own private park...
...Lincoln for an autobiographical sketch.* Publisher Jesse Fell didn't intend to use it in his own Bloomington Pantograph, because everyone in those parts knew all about Abe. He wanted to forward copies of it to eastern papers, to get them interested in Lincoln for President. The Lincoln manuscript has never left the family's possession; neither has the newspaper. Last week the Pantagraph celebrated its 100th anniversary with an ad-fat, 156-page issue...