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...Treasure Room of Widener Library may be seen Shakespeare quartos, autograph letters of presidents of the United States, author's manuscripts, and some illuminated parchment and vellum manuscripts dating from the Twelfth Century...
...supreme achievement of "Annie Laurie'' is a biography of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of W. R. H.), printed on parchment in California, illustrated with superb steel engravings, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, and now being bound at Leipzig, Germany, with gold edges all 'round, velvet linings, and hand tooled pigskin covers. Reputed cost...
Secretary Kellogg was visiting President Cosgrave, who was returning to Ireland after having signed at Paris a parchment called The Multilateral Treaty for Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy, Representatives of 15 nations had signed in Paris (TIME, Sept. 3). Moreover, when President Cosgrave and Secretary Kellogg stepped upon Irish soil, they knew that several additional nations had already declared their desire and intention to sign...
...congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that Republic's independence; and to President Senior Augusto B. Leguia of Peru on the latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment-bound book, two feet square, entitled La Basilica di San Francesco d' Assisi, full of pictures of that famed church. At Cedar Island Lodge arrived four curiously wrought pieces of iron with holes punched in them. They were left by one A. H. Kellerman, 70-year-old Wisconsin farmer...
...documents are on parchment and include charters, conveyances of land, and manor court rolls. The collection is valuable as a basis for study of the antecedents of English Common...