Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schickele explains solemnly that he first stumbled on P.D.Q., whose existence was known only "from police records and tavern lOUs," while touring a Bavarian castle in 1953. To his amazement, he says, he found the care taker using a piece of manuscript as a strainer for his percolator. It turned out to be the Sanka cantata...
...strip between low and high tide in wilderness land near Vancouver. He built a cabin on stilts and sent letters out into the world like pigeons from the ark. The Lowrys were often close to starvation; the cabin burned down, and Lowry was badly burned himself saving his manuscript...
...until the appearance of this autobiography, now published for the first time some 72 years after Meriwether's death, few will have known anything about his early life as a frontiersman and Indian trader. Dictated by Meriwether to a granddaughter in 1886, when he was 85, the manuscript was hidden away as a family heirloom until a great-granddaughter made it available for publication...
When he wasn't prowling for precious minerals, Copper Millionaire Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, 90, was gleaning more obscure treasures, such as a 1260 manuscript of the Rubdáiyát of Omar Khayyam, and some priceless 3rd century papyri of the New Testament. "In 51 years of collecting I've accumulated quite a few fine Oriental texts," the U.S.-born British magnate mused proudly. Then he announced that he is bequeathing the 3,000-volume accumulation, valued at $8,000,000, to Ireland, where he has had a home for 18 years, because "the Irish...
Sponsored by the publishing firm of Atlantic-Little Brown, the grant will offer, as Coles put it, "faith, hope, and some charity" to his research. The manuscript, untitled as yet, concerns Coles' five years work with Negro and white students in the South and deals specifically with problems of desegregation. The grant includes a book contract for the completed work...