Among the letters, manuscripts, essays, poems, notes and organizational records of the church, most never published, are writings by skeptics of prayer healing like Mark Twain, one of her most ardent critics.
Their goal was to work eight hours each day on their writing -- plays, manuscripts, essays and other works that they might have envisioned only vaguely at home or written and rewritten and still did not feel was done.
(In the foyer Barber's autographed manuscript of "Essay for Strings" was on display, a recent gift from the collector Robert Owen Lehman).
It can be a book, an unpublished manuscript, an essay, a drawing, a diary, a couple of poems, a draft for a constitution, or just a few lines of your thought.
It is the only known original manuscript of 85 essays contributed to this publication.
His manuscripts and analytical essays constitute the Armenian folk and classical music canon almost on their own.
His arrest and blacklisting came after the police found the manuscript for an essay called "Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power," which he wrote with Ivan Szelenyi.
And there is a holograph manuscript of his essay, written at 17, on the effects of literature on moral character, in which he championed the works of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, two of his literary heroes.
Instead they were to send manuscripts, diaries, letters, essays and poetic juvenilia to the rue Sébastien-Bottin, the elegant hôtel particulier in the seventh arrondissement where Gallimard settled his rapidly growing enterprise in 1929, and where it remains today.
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of the McSweeney's publishing company, which includes manuscripts of books, essays, and short stories, as well as founder Dave Eggers's correspondence with notable writers.
