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...attics and among the heirlooms of the earth, historical manuscripts lie hidden like nuggets in the coarse ore of family possessions. They seem to be everywhere except where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park...
...Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen," he began. Not a word was audible above the hubbub. Long-suffering as Caspar Milquetoast, he repeated his salutation ten or a dozen times before the crowd permitted him to be heard. Then, halting frequently, with eyes often searching anxiously for his place in his manuscript, Alf Landon read the closing speech of his campaign, not a much better orator than he began it. But the crowd which his oratory could not sway continued to cheer for they had come like most Alf Landon crowds because they liked the big sign that hung in the Auditorium...
...apparently so thickly scattered around his great-great-grandson's home that they all but got under the feet of guests. When Lady Talbot gave a house party in 1930, another mass of Boswell's papers was found in an old croquet box. This batch included the manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, half again as long as the previously published work and the most valuable Boswell manuscript thus far discovered. Last week, 163 years after it was written, Boswell's full Journal was published in the U. S. for the first time...
...often thought" that if he had a harem he would dress his women in linen. The first published version of the Journal lets it go at that, with Boswell's comment that it was odd to hear Dr. Johnson discoursing in this fashion. But the manuscript shows that the situation was more painful. In the course of the talk about harems, Johnson said playfully that Boswell would make a good eunuch. But when Boswell replied in a similar spirit, Johnson got angry-"though he treats his friends with uncommon freedom, he does not like a return"-and began...
...limitations firmly fixed by the time he took office, he served as a standard of consistency against which the dishonesties and irresponsibilities of his colleagues could be measured. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration is an exhaustive, scholarly, 1,000-page volume, based on the huge manuscript diary kept by Fish and containing much unpublished material. No book for hasty readers, it is likely to impress most students as a solid historical achievement, slow-moving but not dull, a biography for those who like facts regardless of the animation with which they are presented...