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This year's miracle play is to be a translation from an old French manuscript now preserved at Chantilly in contrast with the English plays which the club has given in the past two years. The translation was made by Eduardo Sanchez '26, who is also president of the Dramatic Club. The play concerns the events of the Nativity, portraying the appearance of the angels to the shepherds, the meeting of the Magi, the Magi before Herod and the adoration of the shepherds and the Magi. Sanchez' translation is in prose, although the original French is in meter
Another valuable and rare item is the 1816 edition of Christabel and Kubla Khan, Coleridge's own works, which contains notes by him, correcting or improving the original text. The "Christabel" has many lines crossed out and others written in manuscript on the margin...
Besides these books containing Coleridge's manuscript notes, Mr. Perkins' gift makes the Harvard collection of first editions of his important writings very nearly complete. Among these is a file comprising all the issues of: "The Friend; a Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper, excluding personal and party politics and the events of the day. Conducted by S. T. Coleridge, of Grasmere, Westmorland." These papers, dating from June 1, 1809, to March 16, 1810, are of the utmost rarity, and of the greatest importance to any student of English literature at that period...
...other cases in the room are to be seen the manuscripts of various authors, in most cases the original draughts as sent in to the printer. Among the authors represented are Thackeray, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Scott, Keats, Dickens, George Eliot, and Charles Reade. The manuscript of Milton's Minor Poems is on exhibition in a photographic facsimile of the original...
...fragile, then realizes that in reality Elinor Wylie's work would be robust were it only in consideration of her technical perfection. I like to think of her now in an old Connecticut house, surrounded by the demands of several children, yet creating quite calmly and steadily a manuscript fit to be traced upon vellum and illuminated by monks in cloisters, something rich, rare and only very gently indecorous...