Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrival from England. In his little suitcase he had some old pages, scrawled over in a faint curlicue handwriting, which he had recently purchased. These old pages, now bound into heavy leather volumes each stamped with the Scottish crest, were old letters and manuscripts, mostly unpublished, mostly written in the thin legible penmanship of James Boswell...
...monument to the curiosity of the author and the conversation of the subject, admittedly the best biography in the world; the other a chest made of ebony, which was almost six feet long and stood five feet high on slim legs. Letters Boswell had received, letters he had written, notes and diaries and An Account of Corsica filled the chest...
...they made no noise when Lord Talbot shuffled them together and lifted them out of the box. Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk. Then he began to read slowly, the words his great-great-grandfather had written so long ago. Corsica, land of hot skies and almost savage peasants, lifted its little mountains on the moors beyond the window. Famous and courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder of the reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating...
Roald Amundsen, famed Norwegian explorer of the arctics, has written an autobiography...
...over the North Pole, it works up to a denunciation of the Italian skipper, Umberto Nobile, who piloted the ship. ". . . This hired skipper of a Norwegian ship owned by an American and myself shall not be permitted to usurp honors that do not belong to him. This record is written to prevent...