Manuscript Digest: June – July 2022 – 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 news […] […] […]
The Manuscript Society announces, Allen Ottens, society member and past president, has won the 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for his biography, General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man. Allen Ottens The AHF Distinguished Writing Awards program established in 1997, recognizes authors who make a [...]
Benton Barracks-Dead Letter 1044 During the Civil War years, hundreds of thousands of young soldiers wrote letters home. The soldiers, often poorly educated, had never even addressed a letter. The recipient’s name and address on the envelopes were undecipherable. Sweeping changes to postage requirements and the interruption of [...]
Board of Trustees and Officers 2022-2023 At the first in-person meeting since 2019, the May 2022 business meeting was held in Williamsburg, Virginia. The attending membership approved the new officers and the new members of the Board of Trustees. Here are the Officers and Board of Trustees of The Manuscript [...]
Etiquette Your Mother Never Taught You: Special Collections, Museums and Rare Book Rooms Bradley D. Cook - Curator of Photographs, Indiana University One of the many privileges of being a member of a professional organization is the “behind the scenes” tours we are offered by museums, libraries, and [...]