PRINCETON "A Republic in the Wilderness: Treasures of American History From Jamestown to Appomattox," featuring some of Princeton's holdings of American historical manuscripts, autograph letters, rare books, maps, broadsides, prints, photographs and other original materials.
PRINCETON Princeton University Library A Republicc in the Wilderness: Treasures of American History From Jamestown to Appomattox," featuring some of Princeton's holdings of American historical manuscripts, autograph letters, rare books, maps, broadsides, prints, photographs and other original materials.
PRINCETON A Republicc in the Wilderness: Treasures of American History From Jamestown to Appomattox," historical manuscripts, autographs, letters, rare books, maps, broadsides, prints, photographs and other original materials.
The exhibition, "A Mirror of the World," is drawn from the collection of Martin Bodmer, a Swiss bibliophile who at his death in 1971 left more than 160,000 books, manuscripts, autographs and works of art spanning 3,000 years.
Similar circumstances may account for the "discovery" of a manuscript or autograph by a dead author or composer, although many such finds are quite legitimate and have been authenticated.
Vintage Memorabilia, a manuscripts and autographs dealer in Seattle, has offered a 1960s archive from the Kansas criminal investigator Harold Nye, who tracked down the Clutter family murderers and was the hero of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood".
An autograph manuscript of the tale, with extensive revisions.
No autograph manuscript of "Ory" has been found.
The centrepiece was the majestic G minor suite by Handel, played from an autograph manuscript.
Last spring, I spent a few hours looking at the autograph manuscript of "Dorian Gray," at the Morgan Library.
