Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gabriel Welles, art collector, presented Harvard with the original manuscript of Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel" which he purchased for $1700 at an action staged by the League of American Writers for the benefit of the Spanish Loyalists...
...impressed that he wrote home to his friend, Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending him the manuscript of a brand-new Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin...
Insuranceman Stevenson will soon move to Bryn Mawr, has a son at Princeton. He amuses himself collecting first editions of Scott, Dickens, Twain, Poe and Whitman. His prize possession: the manuscript of Whitman's autobiography, which he picked up for a pittance from a busted bootlegger...
First is interest at the moment because it is exhibited to call attention to the fact that the College Library has obtained an option for the purchase of it, is the polograph manuscript of a few hundred pages of the first version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Joyce's first novel. the manuscript after being rejected by the twentieth publisher, was flung but the author into the fire, from which Mrs. Joyce, at the risk of burning her hands resumed...
...gift includes five portfolios of original drawings, portraits and projects; five scrapbooks of clippings, programs, and photographs; many manuscript notes; and costume sketches...