{"product_id":"2940013678217","title":"The Miniature","description":"Calling one day on a friend, who had amassed a large collection of\u003cbr\u003eautographs, and other manuscript curiosities, he showed me a small\u003cbr\u003equarto volume, which had been bequeathed to him by a relative, a\u003cbr\u003ephysician, who for many years had been in extensive practice in\u003cbr\u003eLondon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'He attended the patients at a private asylum for insane persons of\u003cbr\u003ethe better classes,' said my friend, 'and I have often heard him speak\u003cbr\u003eof the writer of that beautiful MS, a gentleman of good family, who\u003cbr\u003ehad been an inmate of ---- House upwards of thirty years,' at the time\u003cbr\u003ehe was first called to attend him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn looking over the volume, I found it filled with scraps of poetry,\u003cbr\u003eextracts from classic authors, and even from the Talmudic writers; but\u003cbr\u003ewhat interested me most was a narrative of several pages, which\u003cbr\u003eappeared so circumstantially related as to leave little doubt of its\u003cbr\u003ebeing partly, if not wholly, founded on fact. I begged permission to\u003cbr\u003emake a transcript, which was readily granted, and the result is before\u003cbr\u003ethe reader.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070113267952,"sku":"2940013678217","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013678217_p0.jpg?v=1763584166","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013678217","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}