Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-21
Thackeray's American Diary


plete manuscript Of Vanity Fair" but
perhaps the most interesting reminder OF
the popular novelist is his little diary OF
his American visit in 1852 1t shows
with methodical exactitude his appoint
ments for the various days. Some of the
items are:
Tuesday, November %, Mr. Jay.
| O'Clock.
Wednesday, November "a Mr.. Baxter
cs6 I'd avenue, $50 O'Clock.
| Saturday. November q, Mr.. Bancroft
| at o'clock.
at home, to II o'clock.
| Friday, December 3, lecture V. Sketch
| Club, IS West 18th street.
| John Keats manuscripts of his lone
poem, 'Endymion,' and the ode to
! Psyche will not attract the sympa-
| thetic interest that will be given to a
| little three-lined note written in d
| scrawling hand, the last pathetic message
to Fanny Brawne, with whom he was IN
| love. and. says an explanatory note, the
premonition that he would not be long
i'll was too true, as he died a few months
later at Rome His farewell message
reads:
THE passport arrived before we start
ed don't think shall be long Ill: God
bless YOU. Farewell. JOHN KEATS"
Lord Byron's long manuscript of don
Juan is full of interest. There are many
erasures and it contains a number OF
stanzas that were never printed Three
volumes of Byron's manuscripts are
twelve volumes of his manuscripts, the
largest collection In the world.
Dickens "Christmas Carol"
Some of the other choice things include
Charles Dickens manuscripts of the
christmas Carol" Sketches of
Young Gentleman and Holiday Ro-
nance" Wnkie Collins Woman In
White and The Moonstone" Bulwer
Lytton's Last Days of Pompei, Char
| lotte Brontes The Professor" Thomas
Moores "Ialla Rookh.' Drydens manu-
OF Sir Walter SCOTS writings. including
.Ivanhoe." .'Waverley," ''Old Mortality,
The Monastery" and Tales OF My
Landlord
American writers are represented by
James Fenimore Cooper's "Deerslayer.
John Fishes Destiny of Man and
Through Nature to God" Edgar Allan
Poe's THE Bells, consisting of three or
four sheets pasted together, DeautlrhilE
written but badly SCARED in places and
stained as though rescued from watery
grave; Washington Irving's Conquest OF
Granada" Oliver Wendell Holmes "Au-
| tocrat of the Breakfast Table Walt
Whitman's Diary of the War and
Ethiopia Saluting the COlors,' written
in a large. heavy hand; Whittier's unpub-
lished poem. ''Vathek." and several 9TH
| ers.
CORVALLIS to Washington.
| Among the interesting letters are sew
| eraI from Benjamin Franklin and the
| complete autograph manuscripts relating
| to the siege of Yorktown and the surren-
der of CORVALLIS bound in handsome
volume. The letter which appears on top,
written entirely in Corvallis hand on
| October II. 1871, is his offer of surrender,
which virtually closed the war for indie
pendence. II is short. but very much to
| the point as follows:
IL propose a cessation of EOstilities for
twenty-four hours and that two officers
NAV be appointed by each side to meet
at Mr. Moores house to settle terms for
the surrender of the ports of Yorktown
and Gloucester.
This is directed to His Excellency,
| George Washington
Washingtons famous letter to James
Madison requesting the latter to write a
| farewell address for him and outlining its
| scope is another of the notable treasures
! of historical interest while from Lincoln.
| in addition to his poem. is message to
| Congress of December Il. 1863.