Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petition was sent in. Benito read his statement to the scattering of correspondents present-mostly Germans and Italians. They reported that he seemed nervous and unable to make himself quite coherent, although he read from manuscript...
...manuscripts is an original draft of the opening chapters of Conrad's "Lord Jim," one of the author's most brilliant psychological studies of character. The paper is much interlined, and shows what extensive changes were made by the author before the final draft was sent to the publishers. A comparison of the manuscript with the printed page is made easy by the way the manuscript is placed in the Treasure Room exhibit, the original draft and a printed volume being placed side by side...
...Among the other books of early Harvard associations are an original manuscript autobiography of Thomas Shepard, minister in Cambridge when the College was founded and until 1649. This book is loaned by the Shepard Historical society of Cambridge. One page of it catches...
...laity should be absolved of the Dayton imprimatur it is the present volume. Mr. Ward, lately a teacher at the Taft School, lives in New Haven, Conn., where he is an imtimate of Professors Woodruff, Keller and Lull* of the Yale University Faculty all of whom checked his manuscript before it was accepted by the publishers...
...cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre. Other engagements follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...