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...agree," replied Mme Joffre. "My husband reread and revised each page of his manuscript not once but dozens of times before he finally initialed it. It is evident that the Marshal wished every word to appear exactly as he left it in the final text. ' My husband's memoirs, Madame, will appear unexpurgated...
...plays of the seventeenth century have been bought to help round out the White collection. Various single and rare volumes, picked up from time to time, render more complete the collections of certain authors that are already exceptionally well represented in the Library,--for example,--Donne (including a valuable manuscript), Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, and Gray. Another subject that these gifts have helped us to build up is French literature, especially poetry and drama, of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,--a class in which the Library is still lamentably weak. In an entirely different field, there was bought...
...fire in their home on Prinkipo Island, near Istanbul, and narrowly escaped in their nightclothes. The home burned to the ground, with it all Trotzky's books and papers (including copies of. all the official documents which passed through his hands as a Red chieftain), but not the manuscript of the history, which he snatched up as he fled.* In seclusion at the Hotel de Savoie on Prinkipo Island, he issued a statement blaming the fire on an overheated stove, denying rumors that White Russians or adherents of the present Red Regime had set the blaze...
...complete set of the first edition of Walter Scott's writings, probably the only one existing; one of the three inscribed books by Thomas Hardy; Edmund Gosse's autographed set of Keats; first edition; a unique and beautifully bound set of Mark Twain with some of the original manuscript inserted; a set of Shaw's works, all autographed, and unequalled for its completeness...
...irrepressible tear drops from his eye as his followers march to the ordered beat of machine gun fire over the dead bodies of the civil population. Unfortunately it is not yet known to which actor the role of victor has been assigned, for Mr. Capone, who possesses the only manuscript of the play, cannot be reached at his home...