Board of Trustees Class of 2026 Below are three society members who have committed to service on the Board of Trustees for the next three years. One is a brand new board member and two have taken on a second term. We thank them all for their commitment to the [...]
Fourth of July on the beach It’s our Manuscript Mondays Almost Independence Day Virtual Summer Beach Party! Monday July 3, 2023 - 8:00 PM Eastern – Live We’ll open it up to a virtual gathering of friends, lively discussion, and a show and tell. This is a [...]
By NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) - originally posted to Flickr as Gutenberg Bible, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9914015 For the collector of documents, manuscripts, letters, we know that paper making is an ancient practice. Before the industrialization of the paper production the most common fiber source was recycled fibers [...]
Manuscript Digest: May – June 2023 – 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 in this digest […]
History in Your Hands: A Passion for Collecting Rembrandt Peale Letter- Embury Collection It’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, or perhaps Mary Cassatt. You’ve read about them or seen their art, but now you read their words written in their hand. You are [...]