Literary drafts

Usage examples of manuscripts.

The learned librarian, whose politeness was all the better for being completely devoid of affection, told me that not only could I have whatever books I wished to see, but that I could take them to my lodging, not even excepting the manuscripts, which are the chief feature in that fine library.

I found the box which Madame Manzoni had sent me in my room, and in it my manuscripts and my beloved portraits, for I never pawned a snuff-box without taking the portrait out.

The valet told us that these manuscripts contained the history of the last Prussian war, and the king had been so annoyed by their accidentally getting burnt that he had resolved to have no more to do with the work.

Here, as so often in these manuscripts, we seem to see Casanova thinking on paper.

In every fact, every detail, and in the whole mental impression which they convey, these manuscripts bring before us the Casanova of the Memoirs.

Among the Casanova manuscripts at Dux was one giving his final comment on his relations with Opiz.

Beyond the publication of these fragments, nothing has been done with the manuscripts at Dux, nor has an account of them ever been given by any one who has been allowed to examine them.

Count Waldstein, the present head of the family, with extreme courtesy, put all his manuscripts at my disposal, and invited me to stay with him.

I found series after series of manuscripts roughly thrown together, after some pretence at arrangement, and lettered with a very generalised description of contents.

The copious manuscripts at Dux show us how persistently he was at work on a singular variety of subjects, in addition to the Memoirs, and to the various books which he published during those years.

As he was looking at some books scattered here and there about the room, he stopped short at the manuscripts which were on magic.

When I was an editor of fiction, every week I received some fifty to a hundred story manuscripts from men and women who had never submitted a piece of fiction before.

Such manuscripts go from the slushpile to return mail, usually with nothing more than a standard rejection notice on them.

However, at some book publishers, unsolicited manuscripts are not read at all!

When I was a magazine editor I personally read all the incoming manuscripts, especially the slushpile.