Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schlesinger Library yesterday turned down Kaptelov's request for other papers citing problems of manuscript control and literary rights...
...archivist, Boris Ivanovitch Kaptelov, said yesterday he intends to request copies of the Leon Trotsky papers, as well as other papers, from Houghton Library. Kaptelov placed a request Friday for photocopies of several manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library...
Kaptelov requested from Schlesinger photocopies of parts of the manuscript collections of Vera Dean, Louise Stroughton, Mary Winsor and Eliza Bowditch van Loon, all of whom were American women who had travelled to or had special interest in Russia. The Schlesinger Library does not hold literary rights for several of the collections in question...
...inconceivable--indeed, it is ludicrous--to suppose that the Department was influenced by an editorial in the Wall Street Journal; if my colleagues took note of that at all, it would if anything have the opposite effect of what the paper intended. The Department met to consider the manuscript on which its decision about tenure depended, and it considered that matter only. Dr. Kearns kept us informed, independently of the press furor, of the state of her manuscript and her plans for publication and asked us for our judgment as to its quality in its various versions. We responded. Decisions...
...scenes or scientific inventions−represented in this show. Arab culture was pragmatic. Almost everything the Italian Renaissance knew of medicine and chemistry, for instance, was transmitted to it through Arabic versions of Greek texts, which often required drawings of the human body. The Freer show contains several scientific manuscripts. One is a splendidly decorated version of a herbal by the Greek naturalist Dioscorides. Another is a fascinating 14th century manuscript on water clocks, paddle wheels and the like, al-Jazari's Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices...