Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Autographs of three Harvard Presidents are included: Edward Everett 1811, Cornelius Conway Felton 1827 and Charles W. Eliot '53. In the book which will be placed in the Treasure Room, there is also an interesting page from the manuscript of John Ruskin' "The Queen...
...Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese walse to give it soul...
...Prochnik, last week presented President Hoover with an equestrian statuet of Washington made of Austrian china. The Smithsonian Institution was preparing an exhibit of Washingtoniana. Rehearsals for Wake field, a folk masque by Percy MacKaye to be presented at Constitution Hall Feb. 21, were under way. The manuscript of one of Washington's Thanksgiving proclamations was displayed in the Library of Congress...
Rarer, though a shade less precious than the Tikytt psalter, were the Blickling Homilies, only Anglo-Saxon manuscript in the U. S., a volume of 149 vellum pages written by two scribes about 971. For it Barnet J. Beyer, Manhattan bookdealer, paid $55,000. For $45,000 he also got what was described as "the most important early illustrated book ever sold at auction"-Boccaccio's De La Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes. Translated by Pierre Faivre, it was the first dated book (1476) with copperplate illustrations. Disposal of the Boccaccio was complicated by the competition...
...choice items of a particular writer. One of these is the selection from the Rupert Brooke collection of R. W. Baker, Jr. '34, which includes a first edition of the war poet's first volume of verse, printed in 1911, original proof sheets of the same book, an autograph manuscript of one of the sonnets and Brooke's copy of a first edition of Thomas Hardy's "Dynasts." First editions of Kipling's "Jungle Books" and of Thomas Hardy's "Dynasts". First editions of Kipling's "Jungle Books" and of O'Henry's "The Four Million" and "Heart...