Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original manuscript of the salutatory oration delivered at a Harvard commencement more than a century and a half ago by Jonathan Trumbull, 1759, has been presented to Widener Library by an anonymous donor...
...manuscript has had an interesting history. After lying in some obscure private collection for some 160 years, it was offered for sale at a public auction in New York City. Among the bidders were a Harvard graduate and a Yale graduate, the former desiring to present it to the University library. The Yale man outbid the Harvard man, but when he learned that a Harvard man had been the under bidder, he declared that Harvard had the prior claim to the manuscript. Wishing to remain anonymous, he gave it to Mr. Keough, the Yale librarian with the request that...
...library has the two letters which President Holyoke wrote him inviting and urging him to deliver the oration. These were received in 1905 from Mr. Grosvenor S. Hubbard of New York, great-grandson of Governor Trumbull. Mr. Hubbard also gave the library a few years later a manuscript containing Judah Monts' "Hewbrew Grammar" and William Brattle's "Enchtridion Logicae," text-books then used in Harvard College, with other notes and lectures on natural philosophy written out by Jonathan Trumbull...
...amnesia (loss of memory occurring in some forms of insanity) and wandered about the country suffering harrowing vicissitudes for three years. In time he recovered and returned to his family and to normal life. But he retained a vivid memory of his experiences, set them down in a manuscript, resolved to turn them to account for human welfare. William James and a few other far-sighted gentlemen encouraged...
...sacred or secular, with or without accompaniment. According to the wishes of Mr. Boott, the donor of the prize, if the words are of a sacred character the type of music exemplified in Mozart's "Cherabine" in desirable. The prize will not be awarded unless the winning manuscript is considered by the judges to be worthy...