Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imply, a casual glance at Who's Who in America would have informed you that he holds the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale and Harvard, and that of Doctor of Laws from half a dozen institutions. Any competent editor on seeing the article in manuscript would instantly have realized that it must be written by a personal enemy of Dr. Faunce and would at least have consulted one of the many prominent Brown graduates within a mile of your office who could have informed him that the article conveys an inaccurate and wholly inadequate impression...
This is an opportune time for such an exhibition with all bibliophile stirred up with the recent sale of the manuscript of "Alice's Adventures Underground" by Doctor Rosenbach for $150,000. There is a very excellent facsimile of the manuscript for which this astounding price was paid on exhibition in the Memorial Room...
...Virginia speech was delivered a few hours after President Coolidge had examined the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland, which was shown to him and Mrs. Coolidge at the White House by Phonograph Tycoon Eldridge Johnson, the present owner...
...Dear reader: it is with feelings in which modesty and a knowledge of my own disabilities are sadly mixed that I take my pen in hand to inform you, my dear superior officer, (for I can suppose it is none other who is about to read this manuscript) that my little detachment is surrounded by the enemy...
...SACRIFICE-Fritz von Unruh-Knopf ($2.50). Son of a German general, Fritz von Unruh was commissioned in 1916 to write something that would improve regimental morale. When he submitted the manuscript of the present volume the General Staff declared him insane. Way of Sacrifice is a mad medley of trench mud, footsore soldiers' nightmares, barbwire hallucinations, macabre fears, and philosophic outbursts, synthesized into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that...