The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem will be the first stop for the New York State Museum's traveling exhibition of the only surviving draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in Abraham Lincoln's handwriting.
It appeared to be the earliest surviving draft of Kennedy's Inaugural Address, a speech that inspired generations to take up public service and that set the standard for every inaugural since.
According to Garff, at some point she "had been too erotically straightforward" and was primly reproached by the pious seminarian in a later letter of which a surviving draft reads, "I intend to give you a serious dressing-down because in your passion you once went beyond a certain boundary".
His conviction that Master must have been Samuel Bowles, the magnetic newspaper editor, is refuted in my biography, "My Wars Are Laid Away in Books," which shows (from sources not known to Sewall) that the poet became acquainted with Bowles after composing the first of three surviving letter drafts to Master.
The document, written by the British Zionist leader Leon Simon at a meeting on July 17 , 1917 in London, was described as the only known surviving handwritten draft.
But the Morgan is showing the "only surviving complete draft of any of her novels," "Lady Susan," an early epistolary tale whose heroine is more Machiavellian than any schemer Austen later imagined.
What Sotheby's is calling the only known surviving autographed draft of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 document below that called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in what was then Palestine, along with other documents from the archive of the Zionist Leader Leon Simon is to be auctioned in New York on June 16.
"This was an unprecedented opportunity to acquire the only surviving original draft of a novel by one of our greatest and most popular writers," said Carole Souter of the NHMF.
"In my opinion," he said, "it's not worth it to disturb the surviving outlines and drafts, trying to 'restore' something that the author did not create.
Examination of Mozart's surviving sketches and drafts — Constanze threw many sketches away — reveals that the composer sometimes began a piece, set it aside, and resumed it months or years later; rewrote troubling sections several times in a row; started movements from scratch when a first attempt failed to satisfy; and waited to finish an aria until a singer had tried out the opening.
