Writers' Manuscripts and Stuff. Handwriting too.
I always love to see great writers' manuscripts and their handwriting. And their stuff too really.
I'd steal it if I could, but that would be irresponsible and selfish and just plain wrong.
But still, imagine having a pair of Shakespeare's shoes! Omg! Or Jane Austen's bonnet. Charles Dickens' walking cane!
I once saw Abraham Lincoln's top hat, but that's another story. Thank God they didn't have his beard.
And I know a stupendous quote from Chopin which goes: 'I don't want people admiring my pants in a museum.'
Oh, and I've seen a photograph of Napoleon's penis in a little velvet box. Which in my opinion is really taking collecting too far.
Anyway..
Here are some photographs of writers' signatures and desks and manuscripts from the Lee Vidor archives here at the Cyberland Mansion.
All of them are real.
Some Writers' Manuscripts.
Marcel Proust - In Search Of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust, scrap paper notes montaged into his manuscript.
James Joyce - Ulysses
James Joyce - Ulysses
Tolstoy - War and Peace
Kafka - The Trial
Kafka, the same page in close up.
Kafka drawings from his diary
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett notebook.
Lewis Caroll - Alice In Wonderland
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Jane Austen - Sanditon manuscript
Jane Austin - Letter and signature
Anton Chekhov - letter and signature
William Shakespeare - Sir Thomas More manuscript. Page reputedly written by 'Hand D', William Shakespeare.
Some Writers' Stuff
Tolstoy's writing desk.
Jane Austen's writing table
Charles Dickens' writing desk
Charles Dickens' Quill
Marcel Proust's writing bed.
Tolstoy and Chekhov comparing boot styles and beards.
Some Writers' Signatures
Emile Zola
Leo Tolstoy
Thomas Mann
James Joyce
Oscar Wilde
Jean-Paul Sartre
JD Salinger
Jack Kerouac
William Burroughs
T S Eliot
Samuel Beckett
Charles Dickens
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Franz Kafka
Jane Austen
Anton Chekhov
William Shakespeare
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