Word: sunderland
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Italian, and a few are English. While many of these volumes are very valuable and rare, there is one work that may justly be deemed a prize above all others. This is the Chronicle of Fernando Lopez, in three volumes printed in 1644. Mr. Lowell purchased it at the Sunderland sale in 1882. On the fly leaf of the first volume Mr. Lowell has transcribed the following quotation from a letter which he received from Mr. G. P. Marsh who wrote from Rome, January 19, 1882: - "As I have no means at hand in Rome of ascertaining the full title...
...loss of the temporary endowment is, can be realized when it is stated that as a result five of the assistant now employed will have to be dismissed. Among the recent gifts were $5000 from the late Thomas G. Appleton of Boston, and L25 from a learned Englishman of Sunderland, Eng, and many valuable astronomical photograph from astronomers...
...Thomas William Backhouse of Sunderland, England, has sent L25 to the fund for the Harvard observatory, "on account," he says, "of the interesting work done there...
...hundred and ninety-seven lives were lost by the calamity at Sunderland, England...
Nearly two hundred children were trampled to death during the prevalence of a panic at a public hall in Sunderland, Eng., on Saturday evening...