Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed songwriter Jerome David Kern (Kalua, Raggedy Ann, Who, Old Man River} of Bronxville, N.Y. At that sale Dickens' Pickwick Papers (perfect copy, first edition) sold for $28,000. Fielding's Tom Jones (first edition, uncut, original binding) brought $29,000. Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (original manuscript of twelve chapters) topped the sale at $34,000. A total of 748 items brought...
Byron?Marino Falerio, Doge of Venice (manuscript...
Byron?Cltildc Harold's Pilgrimage (two leaves of manuscript...
...been even more impressive than Calvin Coolidge's, surprised everyone by standing up and making a speech. Mr. Hoover had prepared a speech and given it to Ambassador Fletcher to read for him. When President Irigoyen sat down, President-Elect Hoover returned the compliment by recovering his own manuscript and reading it himself. An interpreter was necessary to render from English to Spanish. Mrs. Hoover speaks Spanish with moderate fluency but Mr. Hoover has never progressed beyond the meal-ordering stage...
...origin of the Christmas tree is lost in antiquity. As a Christmas feature, however, it was mentioned first in a manuscript of the time of Luther, and was adopted first by the Germans. A German gentlewoman was visiting in England over Christmastide early in the last century, and part of her celebration was a little fir-tree lighted with candles. It was pretty, and next year Prince Albert had a Christmas tree for his wife, the queen at Windsor Castle; and after that its popularity was established in Britain. It was a German army that took, as well as Death...