Manuscript Society Blog
August 4, 2022
2022 Maass Research Grant Awarded This year’s Maass Research Grant goes to a scholar looking at the struggle for health [...]
August 2, 2022
Smith Interview - Collecting Manuscripts The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS) was founded in 1993 as a “society of [...]
July 13, 2022
Like many collectors, the Covid-19 pandemic forced me to stay home more than usual. I’ve re-read favorite books, completed nagging home projects, and delved deep into researching letters and documents in my collection.
July 13, 2022
Medieval Illuminated Manuscript - credit: AJF and Almay Stock Photo Illuminations – 6 that will amaze you Beautiful [...]
July 5, 2022
Manuscript Digest: June – July 2022 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost [...]
June 16, 2022
The Manuscript Society announces, Allen Ottens, society member and past president, has won the 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing [...]
June 15, 2022
Benton Barracks-Dead Letter 1044 During the Civil War years, hundreds of thousands of young soldiers wrote letters home. [...]
June 14, 2022
Board of Trustees and Officers 2022-2023 At the first in-person meeting since 2019, the May 2022 business meeting was held [...]
June 8, 2022
Etiquette Your Mother Never Taught You: Special Collections, Museums and Rare Book Rooms Bradley D. Cook - Curator of [...]
June 1, 2022
To the surprise of even auction houses, New York City has repealed its regulations that applied to book and art [...]
