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Wellesley College has a beautiful room named in honor of Mrs. Browning, and containing Story's bust of the poet and the manuscript of her poem, "Little Mattie." This manuscript was the gift of Robert Browning...
...Cincinnati court gave a young woman $300 damages for the destruction by a professor of a paper written while the plaintiff was a student at Pulte Medical College. She wrote about 17 pages of manuscript in answering questions at an examination, and handed the same to her professor. Afterwards having determined to have the results of her examinations published in pamphlet form as an aid to her in starting in her profession, she called upon the members of the college faculty and requested a return of the papers, or copies thereof. All of the professors so requested returned the papers...
...coins cannot compare in interest with the manuscripts and manuscript letters in the room. There are four plain cases which contain these literary rarities. Perhaps the most valuable and most incomprehensible to the majority of visitors are the Biblical manuscripts. There are about ten in one case, not the least of which cost three hundred francs. They range from the eighth to the seventeenth century. The oldest purports to be of the eighth century, and, "if so, is the oldest manuscript on the American continent." The majority are pictured manuscripts, and the gorgeousness of illustration is indescribable. Especially notable...
Salmi Morse will read the manuscript of the "Passion Play" in the Court of Special Sessions in New York today, when the examination of the charge against him will be begun...
This time-worn volume is incomplete, but contains some 180 pages of manuscript, embracing about 3600 names, about half of which number are now illegible. Many were written in pencil, and many more with an insufficient supply of ink, so that several hundred worthy persons lost their chance of gaining an immortality by neglecting to pay enough attention to details. The first gentleman, however, who signed on the 2d of July, 1838, evidently appreciated the honor of being the "first visitor" to Harvard College, so that we can still read with pleasure that his name was Thomas, and that...