Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey monotony of hell" punctuated by occasional outbursts of frayed nerves, while Cronin's three sons ("all named after saints") wonder "if the world wouldn't be better off without authors." Mrs. Cronin, also a doctor, who has a phenomenal memory for names, places, dates, checks the manuscript for errors...
This novel, by a woman who lives in London, is by far the most vivid and intimate set of laboratory notes, to date, on what it is like to live in a bombed city. Considered too strong reading for Britons, its English publication is being withheld. The manuscript reached the U.S. with three small deletions by the censor. Some bits of London life* as Miss Nicholson describes...
Hubert L. Clark, for the preparation of a manuscript, in anticipation of publication, on "Echinoderm Fauna of Australia...
...terriers be cared for by the Infanta Beatriz de Bourbon y Orleans, Carol's aunt. Meanwhile Seville police broke open such hand baggage as Carol and Magda had left behind, found mostly tinned foodstuffs which in Spain today are precious luxuries. Missing was any trace of the fat manuscript of memoirs upon which Carol Hohenzollern has been working for months...
...publishers of this first novel liken its discovery to the discovery of Thomas Wolfe. In both cases the so-called "discoverer" (literary agent) was Madeleine Boyd, the manuscript was some 800,000 words long, and the original was ruthlessly cut. Like Wolfe's, Davey's novel is also utterly autobiographical...