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...interesting volume presented by the Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, two signed letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the original manuscript of James Russell Lowell's "Oration on the 250th Anniversary of Harvard College", and a number of letters to Charles Sumner, class of 1830, during his tenure as senator at Washington from 1859 to 1865, comprise the latest exhibitions at the Treasure Room in Widener Library...
...tell it, in his own yellow manuscript: "Mr. Marshall of New Jersey, my carpenter. . . . was working on a new sawpit at Coloma, in the mountains, about 18 hours' journey from the fort. . . . It was a rainy afternoon. . . . Suddenly Mr. Marshall burst into the room, he was soaking wet. . . . a piece of cotton from his pocket ... a lump of yellowish metal. . . . Then I read an article in the Encyclopedia Americana. I told Marshall then that his metal was pure gold in the virgin state. . . ." But the news...
...Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, split the Republican party in 1912 by their lack of accord, and thereby became of great assistance in the election of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. At least one citizen no longer wonders. Last week Dr. Charles A. Moore, acting chief of the Manuscript Department of the Library of Congress, announced the completion of the mounting and filing of the 250,000* letters written and received by William Howard Taft during his Presidential term in 1909-13. The Taft-Roosevelt letters prior to their break will be published, among others, posthumously. Two handsome young...
...already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...
That is to say that wit and charm were the playwright's intent. Actually, he did not charge his manuscript with an overabundance of either. The performances of Beatrice Hendricks and Curtis Cooksey were fairly helpful...