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...member of the firm of Ticknor and Fields, was a valued and valuable friend to every author of distinction during the middle of the nineteenth century. When they learned of his fondness for the original manuscripts of famous books, they gave him the best they had saved from the printer and furnace-man. Lowell sent him the Second Series of the 'Bigelow Papers,' 'as a trifling acknowledgment of many substantial obligations,' and Holmes inscribed the manuscript of 'The Guardian Angel' as 'A token of kind regard from one of many writers who have found him a wise, faithful and generous...
...appreciation of the fact that the Boston firm had 'taken up an author on your own judgment instead of waiting until sixteen old women had waited for some echo and echoed it and called it their verdict.' Emerson is represented by 'The Titmouse' and also by the loose and printer-thumbed sheets of an article hurriedly written in the hours following the arrival of the news of the Emancipation Proclamation...
...supplements most satisfactorily the Byron first editions which Harvard received with the library of Harry Widener. The first page of this copy is covered by a note in Byron's handwriting, as attested by the publisher, John Murray. In this the author implores 'those superior persons--the publisher and printer--that they will in future, less misspell, misplace, mistake, and mis-everything, the humbled M.S.S. of their humble Servant. Oct. 26th, 1821.' There are three volumes of Wordsworth's Poems, one of them made up of several 'first editions' as published separately, and all containing, in the author's hand...
Owing to a mistake on the part of the printer, the season tickets are not ready as yet. They will be put on sale tomorrow morning at $2.50 at the H. A. A., Leavitt & Peirce's, Wright & Ditson's Cambridge store, Brine's B. A. A., and the Harvard Club of Boston. They may also be obtained in the Freshman dormitories from N. A. Aldrich '19, Standish E11, from B. W. Thoron "19. Gore C 32 and from N. Wainwright '19. James Smith...
...world-wide reputation. In June, 1914, he had finished the preparation of a new edition of his work,--or rather had finished an entirely new book on the same subject. He had sent his manuscript and the numerous drawings which were to illustrate his book to the printer. As a precaution he preserved at home duplicates of both manuscript and designs. On the morning of August 27 the house of Professor Van Gehuchten was a mass of ruins; the house and establishment of his printer had been burnt to ashes; and all the notes collected by this scholar during...