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• n  the form of a literary work submitted for publication
• n  handwritten book or document

• The task of traveling to England to pick up the manuscript fell to Mark Seidenfeld, the attorney who handles all things Harry for Scholastic.
• Then in 1965, the manuscript was bought by New York Psychiatrist and Art Collector Arthur Sackler.
• The drawback to the manuscript, as it stands, is that it doesn't add up to a satisfactory whole.

• ms
• holograph

News & Articles

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• University buys 'Confederacy of Dunces' manuscript
  University buys 'Confederacy of Dunces' manuscript (AP) — Photographs of John Kennedy Toole as a teenager and a photocopied manuscript of his novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" with handwritten corrections now belong to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The pictures show Toole — an associate professor of English at Lafayette from 1959-60 — as a teenager in Mississippi with his friend Cary ...
  June 20, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
• University buys 'Confederacy of Dunces' manuscript - WXVT-TV Delta News - More Local News and Weather WXVT.com |
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - Three photos of John Kennedy Toole as a teenager and a photocopied manuscript of his novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" with handwritten corrections now belong to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where Toole taught briefly.
  June 20, 2013 - WXVT 15 Greenville
• A Confederacy of Dunces manuscript obtained by UL Lafayette Foundation
  The UL Lafayette Foundation has acquired a rare copy of a manuscript of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces. The Foundation purchased Lot No. 228 at a Sotheby's auction in New York earlier this month. The acquisition includes a 290-page copy of Toole's typed manuscript, with handwritten corrections. It also includes photographs of Toole and his friend ...
  June 19, 2013 - KATC 3 Lafayette

Quotes

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• John McCain in ABC News
  My friends, when I pull this thing off, I have a request for my opponent,McCain said. "I want him to save that manuscript of his inaugural address, and donate it to the Smithsonian. And they can put it right next to the Chicago paper that...
• JK Rowling in BBC News
  Rowling said she had plenty of time while pregnant "to tinker with the manuscript to my satisfaction and I am as happy as I have ever been with the end result".
• Calvin Quate in EurekAlert (press release)
  This manuscript is the first that directly shows a relationship between the nanomechanical properties and physiological function in clinical samples from patients with suspected cancer,said Quate, 1992 Medal of Science recipient.