Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Rome, 84-year-old Santayana had two more books in completed manuscript and one in the polishing stage; but he was determined that the publication of all three would have to wait till after his death. One is a book of allegorical verse, emphatically entitled Posthumous Poems. Another is the final volume of his autobiography, in which, his friends believe, he has discussed other persons and places with an old philosopher's candor. The third is Dominations and Powers, a long-awaited philosophical study of politics, and the only one of his books he believes...
...publishers read Dublin-born Anne Crone's first novel and turned it down cold. Then an idea came to Miss Crone, 32, an Oxford graduate, and a teacher of languages in an Irish girls' school. She would send her manuscript to an old patron of Irish letters, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany. The Irish storyteller and playwright liked it so much that he volunteered to write an introduction, in which he calls Bridie Steen "one of the great novels of our time, not quite to be forgotten in a hundred years." With his handsome assist...
Buying a Day. Sitting down with an author, Editor Allen will whisper soothingly ("But I can't do this to you . . . What a shame to lose this . . ."). Before the author knows it, Allen has slashed and re-arranged the manuscript. A successful author himself (Only Yesterday, a history of the '20s, sold 750,000 copies), Allen scrupulously tots up office hours spent on his own writing, then "buys a day" (i.e., deducts it from his salary). Fred and his wife Agnes (a Reader's Digest editor) collaborated on the between-the-wars picture-history, I Remember Distinctly...
...expression of thanks "for holding off the enemies of freedom," the U.S. sent back to the British the original manuscript...
...Paris, Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau was top man at one of the richest autograph auctions in Paris history. A Rousseau manuscript fetched 4,230,000 francs. A batch of letters from Voltaire brought 330,000; one letter from Beethoven, 116,000; one from Descartes, 48,000. For a letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with a bit of verse...