Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prizes, which are awarded annually, are autographed editions of Herschel's volume on the water supply of ancient Rome, which includes a translation and photographic reproduction of a manuscript entitled "The Water Supply of Ancient Rome," written by Sextus Julius Frontinus, water commissioner of Rome...
...here there is a lacuna in the manuscript. Whether or not the author was seized with a fatal disease, lacked a rhyme scheme, lost interest those are questions which the reader must answer for himself. Suffice to say that in this fragment we have one of the loviest examples of the old Welsh. The translation is practically a literal one with the exception of the word "But", which is written as "However" (from the German "Sed" etc. Vide Med. Phil...
...famous battle of the Constitution and the Guerriere. He learned from an old newspaper clipping some years ago that the bell of the Guerriere was supposed to be still in existence somewhere in New England, and while hunting for the elusive bell he came across an unpublished manuscript giving a complete history of "Old Ironsides." In a footnote to this manuscript the author mentioned a hitherto unknown work, "Scenes in the Last War," by Moses Smith...
First, there were 30 pages of the manuscript of the Life. These had not been closed in the ebony trunk, but had, since the death of Boswell, reposed in a Scottish garret where the air was as damp as oatmeal. When Lord Talbot stooped to gather this sheaf of merry memories, the bundle had crumbled in his hand into a little flutter of yellowish flakes. Only 30 pages could be gathered again. These, a gay jumble of antique anecdotes, had been joined and backed with gauze so that they might last perhaps forever. The manuscript of An Account of Corsica...
Steven's "Memoirs" is shown in manuscript form, as well as in a special private edition printed by Harry Elkins Widener. Of forty such volumes printed, only a few beside this one remain, the others having gone down with the Titanic, in the same disaster which costs Widener his life...