Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goodness me," said the auctioneer, mopping his face with a handkerchief. He had just sold the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland...
When the summer was over, Mr. Dodgson wrote down his story and gave it to Alice Liddell for a Christmas present. It was called Alice's Adventures Underground; there were about 40 pictures in it and a tremendous number of conversations. The meticulous manuscript which Mr. Dodgson gave to Alice was read by some of his friends as well as, doubtless, by hers. Eventually, he was persuaded to write out his story again for a publisher to print. This version was not exactly like the first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many...
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...
...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...