Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very complete interpretation of the entrancing work of art referred to. His (your) statement is probably based on a perusal of the small published brochure, result of a lecture given by my father in New York in 1878, and in no manner complete. I regret that the complete manuscript passed out of my hands when I was a mere boy, at the time of my father's death in 1899. My complete edition of my father's works remains in abeyance until it can be found. E. E. VALENTINI...
...there by the heavy hand of Mynherr Mengelberg, there were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance in manuscript. Pan and the Priest it was called-Pan, the Pagan spirit of unfettered emotions, crossing swords in an endless battle with the Priest, meditative ascetic. Critics found it "striding with energy and lifted head, large- molded, full-throated," "excellent music for a feature film, to depict the struggle of the upper...
...interesting volume presented by the Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, two signed letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the original manuscript of James Russell Lowell's "Oration on the 250th Anniversary of Harvard College", and a number of letters to Charles Sumner, class of 1830, during his tenure as senator at Washington from 1859 to 1865, comprise the latest exhibitions at the Treasure Room in Widener Library...
...tell it, in his own yellow manuscript: "Mr. Marshall of New Jersey, my carpenter. . . . was working on a new sawpit at Coloma, in the mountains, about 18 hours' journey from the fort. . . . It was a rainy afternoon. . . . Suddenly Mr. Marshall burst into the room, he was soaking wet. . . . a piece of cotton from his pocket ... a lump of yellowish metal. . . . Then I read an article in the Encyclopedia Americana. I told Marshall then that his metal was pure gold in the virgin state. . . ." But the news...
...Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, split the Republican party in 1912 by their lack of accord, and thereby became of great assistance in the election of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. At least one citizen no longer wonders. Last week Dr. Charles A. Moore, acting chief of the Manuscript Department of the Library of Congress, announced the completion of the mounting and filing of the 250,000* letters written and received by William Howard Taft during his Presidential term in 1909-13. The Taft-Roosevelt letters prior to their break will be published, among others, posthumously. Two handsome young...