A Century of Signatures, Sent by Registered Mail
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
The Library of Congress has an autograph album.
- A2
The Library of Congress holds a 114-page autograph album.
- B1
The Library of Congress holds a 114-page autograph album.
- B2
The Library of Congress holds a 114-page autograph album kept by salesman Horton J. Kirkendall and his family.
- C1
The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress seldom acquires autograph albums today.
- C2
The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress seldom acquires autograph albums today.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- handwritten
- written with a pen or pencil, not printed or typed
- gather
- to bring things together from different places
- will
- a legal document that says who gets your things after you die
- clerk
- a person who works in an office keeping records or accounts
- duty
- something that you feel you must do because it is right
- valuable
- worth a lot of money or very important to someone
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Library of Congress: Unfolding History (manuscripts). Read the original for the full report.