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...immense percentage of Snobs," says Thackeray in the preface to his celebrated manual of snobbery, "is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. . . . There are relative and positive Snobs. I mean by positive, such persons as are Snobs everywhere, in all companies, from morning till night, from youth to the grave, being by Nature endowed with Snobbishness--and others who are Snobs only in certain circumstances and relations of life...
...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem "Excelsior" written at three o'clock in the morning on the back of a letter from Wendell Phillips. In another case are parts of the original manuscript of "The Uncommerical Traveller" in Dickens' unreadable scrawl, and of the "Roundabout Papers" written by Thackeray in a hand that resembles printed script...
Tonight at 9 o'clock Professor Charles T. Copeland '82 will give his first reading of the College year in the Dining Room of the Union. His reading will consist of selections from Thackeray, Kipling and Leacock...
There is now on exhibition in the Widener Room of the Widener Memorial Library a notable collection, of interest to book-lovers, of first editions and autograph manuscripts and letters of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. In the Dickens case are a second issue of the first edition of "Oliver Twist," illustrated by George Cruikshank, a presentation copy of "Pickwick Papers"; original drawings by the author and by Cruikshank for "Oliver Twist," and a contract with Dickens' publishers, Chapman and Hall...
...Thackeray case contains two first editions of "Vanity Fair," one of them in the original yellow paper wrapper, with the pages uncut, a manuscript of "The Four Georges" in the hand of Charles Poarman, with numerous corrections and additions in Thackeray's autograph, and a presentation copy of "Henry Esmond," given to Charlotte Bronth in gratitude of her recognition of his work. Several pencil drawings by Thackeray complete the selections, which is made from the collection bequeathed to the University by Mrs. Widener from her son's library...