Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine collection of first editions, manuscripts, and corrected proof sheets of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning will go on exhibition tomorrow morning in the Memorial Room of Widener Library...
...Horn Adams, the author of "Nearer My God To Thee" and who was also the Pauline of the poem. A collection of "Bells and Pomegranates" in the eight original parts which was presented to his uncle, Ruben Browning, makes a valuable addition to the collection. There are also corrected proof sheets of this work, showing corrections made by Browning himself...
Four volumes of printed letters, with the originals inserted, corrected proof sheets of "Ferishtah's Fancies," with a long letter to the printer, a manuscript of "Helen's Tower," and the last part of a facsimile of "One Word More," Browning's epilogue to his "Men and Women," make up the rest of the poet's works on exhibition...
...more than a quarter of a century she worked on University publications, again and again taking proof home for hard work out of hours. Not a comma escaped her if concentrated intelligence could prevent. In her love of detail there was no dull routine; there was deathless enthusiasm; no detail could deaden her; to whatever she touched she gave life. Indeed, she and a comma together would furnish any third part with lively commany...
...fine collection of manuscripts, corrected proof sheets, and first editions of Alfred Lord Tennyson is now on exhibition in the Memorial Room of Widener Library...