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  • At least the Athenaeum is a very pleasant place to be unable to write, unlike this office.

    Howard Hughes Blogs in Her Sleep jacobluest 2010

  • At least the Athenaeum is a very pleasant place to be unable to write, unlike this office.

    Howard Hughes Blogs in Her Sleep jacobluest 2010

  • And you call the Athenaeum 'kind and satisfactory'?

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

  • They would have to write home and advertise in the 'Athenaeum' -- for some reason

    The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • There's also a daguerreotype the first commercially successful photographic process of the famous 1796 Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, known as the "Athenaeum Head," that was later used for Washington's likeness on the dollar bill.

    Of Debt and Taxes Mark Yost 2011

  • Having moved to Pittsfield, I naturally made it a priority to get a library card the library is wonderfully called the Athenaeum, and the first order of business once I had it was to check out a few local histories.

    languagehat.com: (H)OPE. 2005

  • This painting is owned by the Boston Athenaeum and is known as the Athenaeum portrait.

    George Washington Lodge, Henry Cabot 1889

  • This painting is owned by the Boston Athenaeum and is known as the Athenaeum portrait.

    George Washington Lodge, Henry Cabot 1889

  • Here in Melbourne there is a private club called the Athenaeum which, since its formation in

    Oz Conservative 2009

  • Old Dominion Bank Building (now known as Athenaeum, an art gallery operated by the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association) at 201 Prince Street in Old Town Alexandria,

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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