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Yesterday the press reported the sale of "Alice in Wonderland" in the original manuscript for more than fifteen thousand pounds. A first edition brought five hundred pounds. Thus does it come about that the fame of whimsical Lewis Carroll dwarfs that of learned Professor Dodgson...
...announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before she writes and is therefore capable of producing, with a minimum of scribblings and erasures, the single typewritten manuscript in which her works make their initial and dangerously modest appearance. A person as mercurial and far more alive than those whose faces peer in startled beauty from the blossomed branches of her writing, Author Wylie lives in Manhattan, venturing but seldom to go among the troops of esthetes...
...strange how far manuscripts and other literary documents often wander from the place of their source but it is more remarkable when, in the course of their peregrinations, they eventually arrive at the place where they properly belong. One instance of this, however, is to be found in a manuscript which has just been acquired by the Grolier Book Shop and which is on exhibition there. This is none other than the original manuscript of "Streets of Night," a novel by John Dos Passos...
...Streets of Night" traces the development of two Harvard undergraduates from the time they entered college until their graduation. The manuscript, which is typewritten, was evidently written by Mr. Dos Passos during his travels as parts of it are dated from such remote places as Beirut, Syria. It is on 214 large sheets and contains many corrections in the author's autograph which show painstaking revision. If one judges from the other markings on the sheets, the printed book itself was set up from them...
...Memorial Room, "The Battle of Marathon," and "Essay on Mind," were written when she was still in her teens. One of her poems, "The Runaway Slave," is the rarest work in the exhibition, and a collection of her sonnets, privately printed in 1847, with a facsimile of a manuscript of one of the sonnets, is probably the most valuable. Two presentation copies of her works, one, "Casa Guidi Windows," and the other, "The Seraphim and Other Poems," with her own corrections on two pages, complete the set of Mrs. Browning's works on exhibition...