Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently discovered manuscript of Leo Tolstoy advising all young men to resist military conscription is being published in the February issue of The Atlantic Monthly and given to Houghton Library by the magazine...
Discovered in a dusty trunk in Trieste, a hitherto unpublished manuscript by James Joyce has been treated by Viking and the academic Joyce industry as if it were a combination of a new Dead Sea Scroll, the Rosetta stone, and a papyrus by Parmenides the Eleatic. All for ten bucks a throw -a throw being exactly 16 pages...
...unprecedented letter, the publishers asked that reviews of Joyce's notes do not quote more than 200 words of text. (The usual request: not more than 500 words without special permission.) As Joyce's manuscript runs to only 3,000 words, the request seems not only reasonable but prudent. Sample: "The heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?" This is followed by a blank quarter-page, then: "Long lewdly leering lips; dark-blooded molluscs." (Joyce appears, quite properly, to have clammed up at this bluepoint...
...role as Hero of the Revolution, Philby also revealed that he has written an 80,000-word manuscript "illuminating my position as a spy." So far, no London newspaper has dared buy his work: The Sunday Times, which was interested, was dissuaded by a threat of prosecution under the British government's Official Secrets Act. In view of the lack of buyers, Philby proposed to hand over his masterwork for free if the British would agree to release Peter and Helen Kroger, two convicted Soviet spies now serving 20-year terms in Wormwood Scrubs. His generosity went unappreciated...
...busy, prosperous and productive life. He detested the Renaissance, but he was close to resembling the common notion of what a many-faceted Renaissance man should be. Biographer Henderson presents a picture of Morris happily at work at his easel, humming a song that he had deciphered from a manuscript, turning aside to make a drawing on another table, sitting down to scratch out a few lines of verse or fable or jot down notes for a wallpaper design or a manifesto or a Homeric translation, then, tired at last, descending a staircase, perhaps of his own design, to bring...