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Rare volumes and letters from the pen of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are on exhibit in the Poetry Room of Widener Library. A feature of the display is a manuscript draft of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "Aurora Leigh," bequeathed to Harvard by Miss Amy Lowell. A letter in which Mrs. Browning referred in 1841 to her famous dog, Flush, is also shown. She wrote that the dog had torn a book into fragments, "like a critic," and added, "But how could he know any better? There's an apology for the critics...
...young collaborator named Jesse Weik to put it into publishable shape. The book contained enough of Herndon's insight and first-hand knowledge to make it a masterly record, but Weik picked and chose over Herndon's materials as he saw fit; the publishers revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents that afterwards sold for more than $300,000. Slandered as an atheist, a drunkard, a scandalmonger, a drug addict, Herndon died in 1891, his great monument to his hero disfigured...
...years later, an emaciated, toothless old man of 38, the legends circulated about that sensational escape had made him the best-known fugitive ever to be confined to French Guiana's famed penal colony. With him he carried, wrapped in oil paper, 30 pounds of closely-written manuscript describing his 15-year imprisonment...
Last week that 30-pound manuscript was published-a grisly, 345-page document that sent queasy readers out for fresh air, sounded fantastic enough to be the truth. Less emotional than Dreyfus' famed account of his five-year exile, Belbenoit's covers more ground, is heavy with unrelieved nightmare...
...Portland Junior Symphony Orchestra, of which I was second clarinetist and bass clarinetist for several seasons, presented Dark Dancers in concert Feb. 5, 1935, Mr. Cadman at the piano. The music was of course played from manuscript. On each sheet, the title was written on a slip of paper pasted over some previous heading, which, after steaming off the paper slips, turned out to be Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. Needless to say, those of us who were "in on the know" procured and devoured (somewhat secretively in a few cases I fear) copies of that book. Concert night...