Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
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...
...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...
...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...