Many days were spent in the rotunda of the Manuscript Division, turning the leaves of the two hundred and thirty volumes of the Jefferson papers.
A few manuscript copies were distributed to close friends, but the "Notes on Virginia" were not published until 1787 and after they had been rather poorly translated into French by Abbe Morellet.
The manuscript letter in the Library of Congress is not the one that was used in the different editions of Jefferson's "Works.
By July, 1800, Du Pont de Nemours, who had already proposed a similar scheme to the French Government, had completed his manuscript and sent it to Jefferson at the end of August.
Then it was unusually long since she had heard from Dick; and she had waited for news from a manuscript which had cost her months of hard work, and on which great expectations were based, till her heart was sick with hope deferred.
In his case the return of a manuscriptfrom a magazine would always affect his bowels unfavorably.
In spite of the doctor's orders he had his manuscript sent to him and proceeded to work.
If, as sometimes happened, he found that the manuscript had been returned only for some corrections, there would be an immediate relief of his condition.
She locked up the manuscript and sat down to wait.
She went home carrying the manuscript like a wounded thing.
All the most striking effects, all the strongest dramatic situations, have been reserved for the pages of the manuscript which, alas, are either lost or unwritten.
The pages covered by the manuscript of this uncompleted story of "Pausanias" are scarcely more numerous than those which its author has filled with the notes made by him from works consulted with special reference to the subject of it.
Indeed, the imperfect manuscript now printed, contains only the exposition of a tragedy.
In his tenth year he lost his parents and went to live with an elder brother, who was so jealous of his superior talents that he refused him the loan of a manuscript volume of music by composers of the day.
The largest I was told contained the complete manuscript of his Memoirs, in forty-eight copybooks.
In the tribune his gesture consists of little feverish pats upon his manuscript with the palm of his hand.
Diane glanced hurriedly over the scribbled manuscript of adventure with a wild, choking sensation in her throat.
Another such forgery was that of the Bohemian Hanka, whose Queen's Court Manuscript still finds overzealous defenders among a certain class of unwise nationalists.
In a moment of mental abstraction, for which I never can forgive myself, I deposited the manuscript in the basinette, and placed the baby in the hand-bag.
It contained the manuscriptof a three-volume novel of more than usually revolting sentimentality.
I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious hand-bag in which I had intended to place the manuscript of a work of fiction that I had written during my few unoccupied hours.
In a manuscript autobiography which Mr. Nicholson left behind him, and which is full of curious anecdotes, he gives the following account of the formation of that exhibition.
After the Reformation, coloured prints superseded the painted andmanuscript “poesies” of the nuns and monks, and the elder De Passe, and other artists of the period of James I.
Buonaparte had dedicated to him his work on Corsica, and had sent him themanuscript for his approval.
A further request from Joseph Buonaparte for the return of the slighted manuscript brought the answer that he, Paoli, had no time to search his papers.
But these reams of manuscriptnotes and crude literary efforts have an even wider source of interest.
When they came nearer they descried in Alister's hand a manuscript volume; Ian carried an old-fashioned fowling-piece.
Ludwig read through themanuscript with his accustomed rapidity.
But what more natural than that he had received the extraordinary manuscript from Germany, or from Sweden?
He had derided the manuscript as a clumsy story by some half-educated person.
I quite follow your argument, my dear Diamond," Farquhar replied, "but has not Holmboe established to his own satisfaction that the cipher still exists in the manuscript in question?
Then he turned his attention to two fragments of the Hebrew manuscript of the Book of Ezekiel, one of the fourth century in the Oriental Room, and the other of the fifth century in the Harleian collection.
Gwen sat and watched her father's Hebrew manuscript grow apace, until it covered many quarto pages.
But does he possess any manuscriptof the Professor's relating to the cipher?
The only other actual manuscript in the Bodleian proved to be a parchment fragment of chaps, x, 9 to xiv, 11.
And the stranger who had copied that very manuscript which he was copying, was an unknown foreigner and a scholar into the bargain!
As far as I could judge, the manuscript of which this is one folio, consisted of about seven folios.
Is it to this second temple which our manuscript relates, do you think?
Upon the blotting-pad lay a sheet of ruled manuscript paper.
Haupt fortunately did not possess any of that manuscript which was evidently a written explanation of the mode of deciphering the message.
Appended to the manuscript I find a note, in another handwriting, signed "R.
It is nowhere pretended that any ancient manuscript of this poem has ever been seen or heard of.
Edom o' Gordon is only a modern and improved version of an old ballad which Percy found in his folio manuscript under the name of Captain Adam Carre.
Those from Mrs Brown's manuscript have also an author's finish clearly impressed on them.
Overlooking the one given by Ramsay in his Tea-table Miscellany, we have neither print nor manuscript of them before the reign of George III.
But as there is nowhere any essential difference to be traced, we may conjecture with great probability that the early printed edition of the romance was taken from a manuscript which was pretty nearly related to the Manchester MS.
The manuscript from which the following romance of Sir Torrent of Portugal is taken, is a folio volume on paper, of the fifteenth century, preserved in the Chetham Library at Manchester.
The manuscript is undated, but from internal evidence it seems safe to assign it to about the year 1854.
Mr. Edwin Thompson Denig, the author of this manuscript report, was the son of Dr.
In the manuscript there appear two quite distinct handwritings, and so it is possible that this particular manuscript is a copy of an original which was retained by the author.
That Mr. Denig made use of the circular issued by Mr. Schoolcraft is clearly evident from the fact that on the left-hand margin of the manuscript he usually wrote the number of the question to which he was giving an answer.
He made a telescope of his manuscript and peered through it as though he saw some illumination at the other end.
When he wanted me to know some special poem he bought it for me if he could; but if he was short of money, he carefully copied out its every line, tied the manuscript neatly up with ribbon, and presented the poem in that form.
Mr. Ellsler and the prompter caught his right hand, trying to save the play, but while they held that he lifted the rest of the manuscript and tore it to pieces with his teeth, growling and snarling like a savage animal.
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