Digest – January 2021
Manuscript Digest –January 2021 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more. […]
Lost: Lessons from the Carnegie Library Theft
Lost: Lessons from the Carnegie Library Theft Michael J. Dabrishus “They are only sorry that we discovered what they did,” said Mary Frances Cooper, director of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. She was speaking as a witness at the June [2020] sentencing of Gregory Priore and John Schulman. The sentencing testimony [...]
Digest – December 2020
Manuscript Digest –December 2020 – This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more. […]
Charles Darwin Notebooks Reported Stolen
Charles Darwin Notebooks Missing Charles Darwin photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1881 Cambridge, England 2000 - Charles Darwin's Notebooks are removed from the stacks to be photographed. Two notebooks, including Darwin’s seminal 1837 Tree of Life sketch. The work is completed in November 2000. In January 2001 during [...]
Mel Blanc: A Portrait in Manuscripts
Mel Blanc: A Portrait in Manuscripts By Kevin Segall Figure 1. An inscribed, dated, and signed photograph of Mel Blanc Figure 2. An inscribed and signed title page from Mel Blanc’s book. 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of the debut of Bugs Bunny which led me [...]
