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...minute, Americans are, as we put it, "there". In all that we did the day 'before yesterday, we like to feel that there is a touch of the day after tomorrow. And so, with some regret, I began to read Mr. Hudson's "Abbe Pierre" which, the wrapper modestly asserted, was only a "novel of today". For the first page or two, I wondered if I were wasting my time in the consideration of something no further advanced than the present. Then, upon my awakening consciousness was impressed the realization that I was reading a novel which, in structure...
...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...
...wrapper of pynk with hys sweete contents...