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...five years later, in 1889, that he began to write. With the choice of several languages ? French, German, Russian, Polish?he elected to write in English, which he preferred as a medium of expression. It was four years later still before he showed his manuscript to anyone. On a voyage to Australia aboard the Torrens, he had, as passenger, a Cambridge man. Conrad asked him: "Would it bore you very much reading a manuscript in a handwriting like mine...
...Next day Jacques?that was his name?entered my cabin with the manuscript in his hand. He tendered it to me with a steady look, but without a word. I took it in silence; and he sat down on the couch and still said nothing...
...Benedictine convent in Lambach, small Austrian town, a party of research students from the Musical-Historical Institute of Vienna, who had come to study the musical archives of the convent, unearthed a composition in manuscript, entitled Symphonic in C-dur, nr. 221, Von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It proved to be a tuneful, sunny piece, composed by the Master in Vienna, according to experts...
...Premier called the roll. Each Deputy arose to take his oath of allegiance to the King. This ceremony over, the King rose (vivas) unrolled a manuscript, began to read an address allegedly censored by Benito...
...French archeologists discovered at Saliyeh in Syria a buried Greek city founded just after the death of Alexander the Great and abandoned in 273 A. D. It contained a parchment written in 189 B. C.,"said to be the oldest Greek manuscript extant," and important mural paintings...