It was during Ireland's battle of Independence. He was captured on June 26, 1920, while fishing on the river Blackwater in Co Cork. General Cuthbert Lucas would "escape" on July 30, 1920. Letters between the husband and wife and Lucas’s secret captivity diary are now digitized. Available online, Thursday, June [...]
Gallatin 1809 Letter Not long ago, we shared with you the gift of L. Dennis and Susan Shapiro to the Huntington Library. The Shapiro collection includes letters and manuscripts penned by United States presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama. It is particularly rich in primary sources for historians of [...]
It began in 2017. Became public in 2018. Over 300 books, maps and manuscripts from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, PA were missing. What turned out to be a 25 year venture between two men came to light. Discovered during an insurance audit. We have been sharing information as we [...]
Over the next three years, The National Library of Israel is making more than 2,500 rare Islamic manuscripts from its Islam and Middle East Collection freely available online. These manuscripts span the ninth through 20th centuries. The texts feature items from royal Mamluk, Mughal and Ottoman libraries. Also, the online [...]
What is a collector to do? Should we have seen it coming? No more signing of letters? It is not what it seems. For languages that write with characters and is not based on an alphabet that is conducive to cursive there may be a new answer. A computer program [...]
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