Arizona republican., 1904-01-10

Patmore insisting on looking himself. found the manuscript in a cupboard where Tennyson had kept his provis- ions.
 Once before Tennyson had lost a manuscript which he never recovered. He lost the first manuscript of Poems. Chiefly Lyrical" out of his great coat pocket on night while returning from a neighboring town, and sat down with courage worthy of Carlyle and re- wrote the poems from beginning to end.
 Examples almost without number come to mind of manuscripts which have lain for years and generations, sometimes for centuries, out of sight. Milton's Commonplace book was lost for 200 years, and was only found and published in 1874. But for an accident his "Comus' might have been lost to the world, as it narrowly escaped being bricl1ed up with the Bridgewater Pa pers, which had all perished when found.
 The Creevey Papers which all the world has been reading of late lay for sixty years undiscovered, and we have had in the last few years. an example of how, even in these days, momentous manuscripts may lie hidden and un- suspected beyond the gaze of man. The oldest code of laws in the world pro- mulgated by king of Babylon forty two centuries ago, was found thanks to the enterprise of the French gov ernment, only last year. and though the ancient manuscript is written in stone, it is an amazing thing that we can now read. in King Hammurabrs own words 4.314 lines of the statutes he enacted for his people more than 1000 years before Christ:
 There is now in St. Petersburg the oldest known manuscript of the New Testament in Greek, saved from de- struction by the merest chance sixty years ago. Crossing the hall of a con vent at the foot of Mount Sina, Con stantine Tischendorf saw a basket full of parchment leaves on their way to he burned. Two baskets had already gone he was told and all that he could secure for himself was small bundle of odd leaves. But the monks. now interested in the waste paper saved the rest from the fire and nine years after on a return visit to the convent. Tischendorf found that the steward had, wrapped in a red cloth, "a bulky kind of volume" which proved to he the whole of the New Testament, with parts hitherto unknown, and parts of the Old which had long been sought. He begged the volume for the cZar and today it lies well preserved in. spite of it's 1900 years of age, among the treas ures of the Russian capital.
 The Stuart Papers, one of the most precious possessions of King Edward, were found lying in a garret by an outlaw. upon whose head the British government had set a price, who bought them for a paltry sum as Q heap of tradesmen's bills, and after ward ended a miserable life by strang- ling himself in a London Tavern. But for this tragedy of a life these price less volumes in the kings library would doubtless have perished un- known. More pathetic is the story Of the manuscript of one of the most beautiful poems in English literature. Dante Gabriel Rossetti on his >wife's death placed the manuscript of The Blessed Damosep' in hec coffin and buried it with her. It was his only copy and the poem was then imprinted. And imprinted it would have remained had not his -frterfds induced fsoet-fesss4ff possession of the poem and give it to the world. So the Blessed Damosri was brought
 From the Gold Bar of Heaven"