2020 Williamsburg, VA Cancelled. The Manuscript Society's 2020 annual meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia is cancelled. The COVID19 pandemic impacts every part of the country. Communities, cities and states are requiring everyone to stay at home. Flight availability shrinks. Our international members cannot attend. Virtually all of our venues are and [...]
Manuscript Society's tour: Great Libraries of Rome is cancelled. The Executive Committee, Board of Trustees, recognized the need to act. The World Health Organization's designation of COVID 19 as a pandemic along with the open-ended state of emergency by President Trump called for action. The CDC has very specific recommendations [...]
2020 Manuscript Society Annual Meeting and COVID-19 The local organizers and the Executive Committee of the Manuscript Society are monitoring the spread of Covid-19 for any potential impacts to our annual meeting, May 12-16, 2020. At this time, we are following the advice of the CDC. While our group would [...]
Washington Medals Last November the Historical Society of Pennsylvania auctioned off part of William Spohn Baker's extensive collections of George Washington items. 1,102 medals relating to George Washington were sold in individual lots at a Baltimore auction. They fetched about $2.2 million for the cash-strapped historical society. Freedom Box Will [...]
“Frederic Goudy & H. G. Wells: The Time Traveler’s Typeface,” was presented by The Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois. The talk presented on Friday, November 15, 2019 was by artist Rex Parker. It is now available on YouTube. This collaboration of Goudy and Wells brought together a [...]
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