Word: ms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...October number of the Harvard University Bulletin, edited by Justin Winsor, contains an excellent article entitled "Notes on the MS volume of Shelley's poems in the Library of Harvard College," by George Edward Woodberry. This volume was given to the library by Mr. E. A. Silsbee, who had received it from an intimate friend of Shelley's, and was plainly a copybook and not intended for use in original composition. The object of Mr. Woodberry's notes is to place before students the variations between the MS text and Formau's edition, London, 1876. Appended to the article...
...would promote the welfare of the country by carrying out its principles of (a) a respectable foreign policy; (b) the suppression of Mormonism; (c) a free ballot and an honest count. References: The Philadelphia Press, Jan. 4, 1888; Stanwood's Presidential Elections; "Platform Promises," 1864-1884 (MS. pamphlet...
...theory, he received a letter from Wallace, who was then in the Greek Archipelago." Now, Wallace was in the Malay Archipelago, and, as I shall show, Darwin was not beginning to develop his theory, but had matured it already some years back. In 1837, Darwin sketched out a MS., which he copied in 1844, when the copy was read by Dr. Hooker, who communicated it to Sir Charles Lyell. In this MS. he treated of "The Variation of Organic Beings under Domestication and in Their Natural State;" "On the Variation of Organic Beings in a State of Nature...
...English 12 who find it hard to write a page of MS a day will be pleased (?) to know that Alexandre Dumas would not have quite finished his works, if he had written fifteen pages (each of two hundred words) every day for twenty-two years...
...last concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra occurs in Sanders Theatre tonight. The programme will be as follows : Overture, "Genoveva," Schumann; concerto for piano-forte in E-flat (MS.), Henschel; symphonic poem, "The Tempest," John K. Paine, (conducted by the composer); "Lohengrin's Legend and Farewell," Wagner; "Invitation a la Valse," Weber-Berlioz. Soloists : Mr. Charles R. Adams; Mr. Georg Henschel, piano-forte...