Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literary discovery of the century, the papers contained huge chunks of Boswell's journal, and hundreds of letters-enough unpublished material to fill 18 thick volumes. As the years passed, the castle continued its yield: Johnson's diary turned up in the strong room, and the entire manuscript of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was discovered in an old croquet...
Breakfast with Garrick. The papers range from tiny scraps on which Boswell jotted his observations, to 1,300 pages of working manuscript of the Life. There are pages of Boswell's journal, letters from Sir Joshua Reynolds, Garrick, Burke, Voltaire, a journal of Boswell's tour of Italy, notes for a life of General Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia. Boswell not only kept a copy of the letter he wrote Rousseau asking for an interview ("J'écris mal le francais,'' he apologized), but managed to get his hands on a letter Rousseau wrote...
...final week). Of these, 84 eggs, 40 tomatoes, 4 peaches, 2 lemons, 1 orange, and 1 bun were aimed at Henry Wallace. He was hit by 5 eggs and 4 tomatoes. Two eggs splashed on his plane, 2 on his auto, 2 on his train and 1 struck the manuscript he was reading. One egg and 5 tomatoes were thrown at Governor Thomas E. Dewey. No hits. One pop bottle was thrown at President Harry Truman during his parade in Indianapolis. It landed in the street, 35 feet away...
During the depression, a millionaire walked into the Minneapolis office of a floundering outdoor-sports magazine, and shyly presented a manuscript he had written. The editor sized up the author and the story and bought it for $10. He got a great bargain: before grateful Lumberman M. J. Bell Sr. was through, he had invested more than $50,000 to keep Sports Afield afloat...
Each of these works runs to some 300 pages and each is as long and as closely packed as a novel in itself. Finally, there is a prologue and an epilogue, laid in 1944 and 1945, explaining that the three books are a manuscript left by a great American, a former Supreme Court Justice, Orville Windom (obviously modeled on Oliver Wendell Holmes), as both his concept of family history and his testament of the American heritage...