Dr. Aptheker is a tall, white-haired man of 58, a Marxist historian & scholar, an old friend of Dr. Du Bois', & the custodian, until now, of the Du Bois papers, which is a collection of over a hundred thousand items, including letters, speeches, manuscripts, etc. Aptheker is the editor of several volumes of the papers which are to be published by the U. of Mass.
This monograph contains the full text of the introductory speeches and manuscripts upon which the invited talks and abstracts of the poster sessions were based.
Many were disappointed; the Democratic candidate read a two-hour speech from a manuscript, wishing to look statesmanlike, and fearing that if he spoke without a script, the press would misrepresent his words.
"Some speeches for which no manuscript exists, if there is any text at all, are known only from stories by reporters".
When Albert Einstein died in 1955 in Princeton, N.J., he left behind several thousand documents, including letters, scientific manuscripts, speeches and political writings.
My research in the Wilson archives in the Bodleian Library did not uncover a manuscript of the speech.
The manuscript of the speech, which was in his coat pocket, cushioned the blow and saved his life.
One bizarre detail mentioned by Matuschek is that, in 1933, Zweig, ever the diligent collector, bought the thirteen-page manuscript of a speech by Hitler.
A handwritten manuscript of a speech given by Abraham Lincoln in 1864 sold for $3.44 million at an auction on Thursday, the highest price paid at an auction for an American historical document, The Associated Press reported.
The same sense of the artifact expanding its writer's words can be seen in the manuscript of Einstein's 1932 speech to the Associates of the California Institute of Technology.
