Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controversy had its beginnings in 1856, when eccentric Scholar Edward FitzGerald got his first look at a copy of a 400-year-old manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library. He began translating the quatrains of the forgotten Persian astronomer-poet, Omar Khayyám. In a short time, FitzGerald's translations swept into vogue, and the Rubáiyát's call to "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou" became a literary contagion...
...professor set to work, gave the quatrains a literal translation (the manuscript contained 172 of them), and published them in a small (400 copies) deluxe edition. But no sooner had he completed the task than a Persian book dealer came all the way from Teheran to see him with a browned and ancient sheaf of papers. Arberry recognised that this Rubáiyát was older still. It had been copied out only 75 years after Omar's death, contained 252 quatrains...
...Reducators" manuscript, meanwhile, has become wrapped in legal red tape and Councillors believe it is doubtful that the question will be brought up again...
Even without the new additions, Yale custodians had years of editing and assorting ahead of them. Now they had more than 1,000 additional manuscript pages from the Life of Johnson and Tour to the Hebrides. There were also such tidbits as a report to Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Boswell's own love affairs, and a verdict on Dr. Johnson's old friend, Mrs. Thrale (". . . For all her care and attention she was amply repaid by the gratification of her vanity in having so great a man ... to use, as it were, in her possession...
...dossier, sent in manuscript form to the council by Robert Denner of Color ado Springs, Colorado, lists 124 "organizations designated as (Communist front) by government investigating agencies." The agencies were not named...