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Fakes, Phonies and Forgeries Update

September 10th has come and gone.  But members of the Manuscript Society can access the Webinar: Fakes, Phonies and Forgeries. Fakes, Phonies and Forgeries online. Led by Brian Kathenes, ISA CAPP, attendees from around the world learned techniques to spot forgeries, autopens, secretarials and more. Questions were taken from participants.  [...]

2019-10-02T16:42:02-04:00October 3, 2019|News|

Digest – October 2019

Manuscript Digest –October 2019– This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more. […]

2019-10-02T15:44:06-04:00October 2, 2019|MS Digest|

Supreme Court Autographs, Letters, and Portraits

John Jay, John Marshall, Roger Taney, Salmon P. Chase, Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Howard Taft.  All members of the United States Supreme Court. But you knew that. They are only a few of the justices highlighted in a new on-line exhibit. Featured are some of the notable portraits and [...]

2019-09-06T13:41:10-04:00September 7, 2019|News|

Thomas Jefferson Letter Returns Home

One of  Thomas Jefferson's 1826 letters announcing the appointment of the University of Virginia's first professor of law returns to the UVA's Arthur J. Morris Law Library. The letter is now on display.  John Tayloe Lomax was a Virginia native practicing law in Fredericksburg. He was chosen by Thomas Jefferson [...]

2019-09-06T12:27:34-04:00September 6, 2019|News|

Digest – September 2019

Manuscript Digest –September 2019– This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more. […]

2019-09-04T13:48:18-04:00September 4, 2019|MS Digest|
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