Word: manuscripts
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...affair will begin promptly at eight o'clock with a short and interesting program of light music played by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra of fifty pieces. Through the courtesy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Sodality has obtained the original manuscript and only copy of two Russian folk-songs which have never been played in America except last spring by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. These will be included in the program, which follows...
...length of the essay must not exceed 2500 words and it must be legibly written or typewritten upon paper of good quality. The title-page of each manuscript must bear an assumed name, and the author must hand in, with his manuscript, a sealed letter, containing his true name...
...prize will be awarded only in the case some composition is submitted which, in the opinion of the Judges, is deserving of such recognition. The title page of each manuscript must be signed with a motto or an assumed name, the same to be written on the envelope of a sealed letter in which is enclosed the name and address of the competitor. Manuscripts must by March first be in the hands of the committee, which will consist of Arthur Foote, 81 Green street, Brookline 47, George A. Burdett and Frederick S. Converse...
...Widener Room of the Widener Memorial Library there is now on view for a fortnight an interesting exhibit of first editions, manuscripts and autograph letters of Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth and Robert Browning. Included in the Tennyson cases are an autograph copy of the first proof-sheets of "Gareth and Lynett," with many corrections by the poet, a first edition of the "Holy Grail," with 50 lines of original manuscript, a first edition of "Enoch Arden," and the original manuscript of "The charge of the Light Brigade...
Among the rare pieces by Robert Browning are the proof-sheets of "Bolls and Pomegranates," with numerous corrections and changes in the author's handwriting, and a similar edition of "Ferishtah's Fancies," and one of the first issues of "Pauline." The original manuscript and earliest printed issue of "Helen's Tower" completes the Browning collection. Mrs. Browning is represented by a rare first edition of "The Battle of Marathon" and "Sonnets From the Portuguese." There is also on exhibition an autographed letter of Tennyson...