Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original Leonardo, as Louvre authorities have long admitted. What Harry Hahn was looking for was some document indicating that his portrait had once belonged to the royal collection of Louis XVI. He found that this winter in the great art library of the Salomon Rothschild Foundation in Paris: a memoir written by an official Louvre expert in 1847 showing that La Belle Ferronnière, which had been one of the King's pictures at Versailles, was sold by Revolutionary Architect General Auguste de St. Hubert to General Louis Tourton...
FAIRBANK (Ronald) A Memoir. By I. Kyrle Fletcher. Illustrated with Portraits. Mint in Dust Wrapper...
Harold Jefferson Coolidge '92, assistant curator of mammals, and Robert Howard Lord '06, have cooperated in gathering letters and stories from all over the world to put into this memoir of Harvard's great professor. One of the authors is a younger brother of A. C. Coolidge while the other, Lord, was a much younger colleague of his in the History department of the College. Through persistent research and untiring efforts they have succeeded in gathering much of interest out of the voluminous correspondence of the famous librarian and peace worker...
...value of a memoir is frequently hidden behind a camouflage of misleading statements. Essentially defenses, they are apt to be prejudiced and to possess little historical force. Mistakes of the hour are explained and smoothed over after years of considering their possible justification. The real worth of a memoir is expressed by its revelation of the true character of the author. His defense of himself and criticism of others is the finest estimate of his ability. That which needs defense is weak and doubtful by hypothesis...
...Sweden and of the Goths and Wends entered escorting Princess Ingeborg (his brother Carl's wife, the King of Denmark's sister), followed by the rest of the Royal Family. All Ladies of the Court were in black, for Queen Victoria of Sweden (No. 1 patient of best-selling Memoir-Writer Dr. Axel Munthe) has been dead only since April...