Word: noted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most interesting case of all, perhaps, is that containing autograph letters and poems. Here are collected letters from O. W. Holmes. Jefferson, Washington, John Quincy Adams, and a note from A. Lincoln, inviting the Hon. C. Sumner to accompany him "for half an hour" to the inaugural ball, March 5, 1865. There is also a finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some...
Among the other interesting curiosities is a Hebrew Bible used by President Dunster. It contains on a fly-leaf a note by Josiah Quincy, stating that this "valuable relic" will be carefully preserved in the archives of the college library associated as it is with the memory of one of its earliest, most faithful, highly esteemed and learned presidents and benefactors...
Lost - Moliere, Vol. II., and note book in N. H. 1. Finder will oblige by leaving at Hollis...
...testimony of Longstreet and his officers. It was then pointed out that the testimony of Pope's friends about the "4.30 order" was decidedly suspicious, and that Porter did not receive the order until about 6.30 P. M., as several of his staff and officers testify. Porter's note to McDowell at six o'clock also bears on its face the fact that he had not received the 4.30 order. It was also impossible for Porter to fulfil the order, because the position, both of the enemy and of the Federal troops was different from what the writer...
Lost - Moliere, Vol. II., and note book in N. H. 1. Finder will oblige by leaving at Hollis...