Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undoubtedly some foreign influence, financial or otherwise, which has caused the removal of my book from circulation and the attempts of the Macmillan Company to buy up all copies already sold. The plea of 'important inaccuracies' can hardly tell the whole story, for not only was the manuscript read by the company's readers but in addition, after publication, by Professor C. A. Beard, of Columbia. The company states that I refused to accept the suggestions made by Dr. Beard, but except for a very few, which the vice-president of the company himself deemed immaterial, all the changes suggested...
...Widener Library has lately received from Mr. George Rapall Noyes '84, of Norwich, Conn., four manuscript volumes containing the letters of his uncle, John B. Noyes, of the Class of 1858. Noyes enlisted as a private early in the Civil War, became a captain of the 28th Massachusetts Volunteers, and after passing through a long and active service, including Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, was brevetted Colonel U. S. Volunteers. His letters were written to various members of his family, and form an unbroken series from his first garrison duty...
...collection has been in the Widener Library only a few months its reputation as a storehouse of information on the drama is bringing an increasing number of students to the Library. One of Professor Baker's students recently found it unnecessary to go to England to revise the manuscript of his history of the English stage during a certain part of the nineteenth century; the exhibition enabled him to do this in Cambridge...
...collection has been placed in the Treasure Room at Widener, each manuscript being carefully protected by a heavy green leather case...
...manuscripts in the Bowdoin Prize contest for dissertations in English and the Classics must be handed in today to the Secretary of the Faculty in University 20. The Bowdoin Prizes include three for undergraduates and three for graduates for essays in Greek and Latin. Manuscript is also due today for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize; for the Menorah Society Prize; for the Francis Boott Prize; and for the George Arthur Knight Prize in music...