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...blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most of his life, he is now subsidized by an anonymous Englishwoman...
John Harvard's gift of his library of 400 volumes in 1638 has been represented since the fire by this one book, "Christian Welfare" by Downame. There is in the possession of the Treasure Room, although not now on exhibition, a manuscript resembling a handbill which bears the date of January 25, 1764, and gives the following account of the fire...
George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, returned from Europe with the manuscript of an Anti-Fascist book by Francesco Nitti, nephew of onetime Italian Prime Minister, Francesco Saverio Nitti. Publicity was given Mr. Putnam's story that, in London, his life was threatened by Fascist...
Last week was memorable for Dramatist Sherriff. The evening following the King's visit to his play, the manuscript of Journey's End was put up at auction at the tenth Anniversary Dinner of the League of Nations Union, brought $7,500, highest price ever paid for the manuscript of a living author's first play...
...Reputedly the highest previous price paid for a living author's manuscript was $5,300, for Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly at the Quinn Sale in New York...