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Valuable autographs from the Amy Lowell collection make up the greater part of the display now being exhibited in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. One of the most prized specimens included in this group is the original copy of an unpublished epitaph by Ben Jonson.
Letters of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, and Lord Macaulay and to this interesting collection of autographs. Two other letters of historical significance is one of William of Prussia who later became the Emperor William the First of Germany and one of Catherine the Great of Russia. The note of the former is amusing in its content, asking that special provision may be made by the addressee to allow the writer's sister and aunt who are under quarantine for scarlet fever to attend a ball.
An original copy of one of Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son as well as several miniature books written by Charlotte Bronte during her childhood are included by one case which further shows the variety and worth of this unusual collection of Miss Lowell.
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