The hotel claims that William Faulkner wrote his Nobel Prize acceptance speech there in 1950.

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It's not often that we get this many handwritten documents - the immediacy that we have, something where King would jot a note to himself or write an outline for a sermon or a speech, write a draft of a speech as important as the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

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Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, when King wrote his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Bimini.

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When Robert A. Mundell won his Nobel Prize in economics in 1999, he spoke of the causes of the Great Depression in his acceptance speech.

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