Many of them express the freer qualities of real pen-drawing-an autographic character in the line-work akin to that secured in original etching.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
It was at this time that Prince Albert sent to Mendelssohn the book of the oratorio "Elijah" with which he used to follow the performance, with the following autographic inscription: "To the noble artist, who, surrounded by the Baal worship of corrupted art, has been able by his genius and science to preserve faithfully like another Elijah the worship of true art, and once more to accustom our ear, lost in the whirl of an empty play of sounds, to the pure notes of expressive composition and legitimate harmony-to the great master, who makes us conscious of the unity of his conception through the whole maze of his creation, from the soft whispering to the mighty raging of the elements: Written in token of grateful remembrance by Albert.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
Those who transcribed their autographic manuscripts were not inspired.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke