Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Harvard's gift of his library of 400 volumes in 1638 has been represented since the fire by this one book, "Christian Welfare" by Downame. There is in the possession of the Treasure Room, although not now on exhibition, a manuscript resembling a handbill which bears the date of January 25, 1764, and gives the following account of the fire...
George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, returned from Europe with the manuscript of an Anti-Fascist book by Francesco Nitti, nephew of onetime Italian Prime Minister, Francesco Saverio Nitti. Publicity was given Mr. Putnam's story that, in London, his life was threatened by Fascist...