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Four volumes of printed letters, with the originals inserted, corrected proof sheets of "Ferishtah's Fancies," with a long letter to the printer, a manuscript of "Helen's Tower," and the last part of a facsimile of "One Word More," Browning's epilogue to his "Men and Women," make up the rest of the poet's works on exhibition...
...Poems, by Two Brothers," a book of poetry written by Tennyson and his brother in their youth is considered the finest copy in existence. The Memorial Room is fortunate in owning a copy of a first edition of Tennyson's masterpiece, "The Holy Grail." An autographed manuscript of the immortal lines about the passing of Arthur is also contained in this volume...
...collection, however, is the autographed manuscript of "The Charge of the Light Brigade," probably his best known poem. This was first published in the newspapers. The soldiers in Crimea, seeing the poem, sent a request to the government that copies of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" be sent to all of them in Crimea. The worn, crumpled copy in the exhibition belonged to a soldier...
Commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Cotton Mather, of the Class of 1678, the Treasure Room of Widener Library is now displaying a collection of his works. Among the articles of particular interest are some manuscript sermons, one or two personal letters written in Latin, several books that belonged to him, and numerous rare editions of his works. Among the sermons is one bearing the title, "Sermon upon the Duties wherein and Reasons whereof young people should become Religious...
John Gay's autograph appears on the fly leaf of Dryden's 'Annus Mirabilis' of 1667, and of a 1662 Elzovir edition of Pierre Charron's 'De La-Sagesse.' It is also signed to the manuscript assignment to Jacob Tonson and John Watts of his rights as author of the 'Fables' and the 'Beggar's Opera,' dated February 6, 1727. The poet's signature is not easy to find, but infinitely scarcer is that of 'L. Bolton' the Duchess of Bolton who was once Lavinia Fenton, the creator of the part of Polly in the 'Begger's Opera...