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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1878. ==Events== *January 28 - ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. *June - Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories ''The Suicide Club'' featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in ''The London Magazine''. *June 10 - Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on British soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS ''Mavis''. *August 3 - Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about the monotony of his life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France.〔(Julian Barnes, "On We Sail", ''London Review of Books'', 5 November 2009 ). Accessed 5 January 2014〕 *October - The Peabody Institute Library (later George Peabody Library) opens to the public in Baltimore, Maryland. *December 30 - Henry Irving's production of ''Hamlet'', with himself in the title rôle playing opposite Ellen Terry as Ophelia, opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (of which they have taken over the management). *Undated * *The Johns Hopkins University Press is established in Baltimore, Maryland, as the "University Publication Agency", making it the oldest continuously operating university press in the United States. * *The Remington No. 2 typewriter, the first with a shift key enabling production of lower as well as upper case characters, is introduced in the United States. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1878 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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