Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...filling the world when Beethoven first dreamed in D Minor?a combination of orchestra and voice that should recapitulate the struggle and ultimate victory of humanity. It was several years later that Beethoven wrote to London asking what the Philharmonic Society would be likely to pay for a manuscript symphony. The offer was £50. In 1824 the manuscript was delivered?...
...widows of Presidents have been treated in many different fashions: Martha Washington, franking privilege; Dolly Madison, franking privilege and payment of $30,000 for husband's manuscript (the only complete and authoritative account of the U. S. Constitutional Convention) ; Louisa C. Adams, widow of John Quincy Adams, franking privilege and $25,000 cash; widows of John Tyler and James K. Polk, annual allowances of $5,000 each; widow of Zachary Taylor, franking privilege and $5,000; widow of James A. Garfield, franking privilege, single payment of $50,000 and annual payment of $5,000; Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. Roosevelt...
...each exhibit will be to present as completely as possible the author's works as shown in manuscript, the first editions, some notable later editions, and finally, with special stress, the English translations, and interesting books about the author...
...paper is in manuscript form contained in a little leather-covered blank-book, measuring six by three and three-quarters inches. The pages are filled with the close and somewhat difficult handwriting of the author, Ebenezer Turrell of the class of 1721. On one fly-leaf is the inscription "E. Turelli Liber" and on another the name of Andrew E. Thayer...
Rehearsals will not begin until the revision of the manuscript is complete, and probably not until after the mid-year period...