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The Manuscript Society announces, Allen Ottens, society member and past president, has won the 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing [...]

Benton Barracks-Dead Letter 1044 During the Civil War years, hundreds of thousands of young soldiers wrote letters home. [...]

Board of Trustees and Officers 2022-2023 At the first in-person meeting since 2019, the May 2022 business meeting was held [...]

Etiquette Your Mother Never Taught You: Special Collections, Museums and Rare Book Rooms Bradley D. Cook - Curator of [...]

To the surprise of even auction houses, New York City has repealed its regulations that applied to book and art [...]

Manuscript Preservation is always a challenge Paper does not last forever. One of the most significant challenges is acidic degradation.  [...]

Manuscript Monday: Etiquette Your Mother Never Taught You: Special Collections, Museums and Rare Book Rooms Free Live Webinar Monday, June [...]

Join Collections Advisor, Spencer W. Stuart, as he discusses the life cycle of collections and the collectors who build them. [...]

A 'Behind the Scenes' Look at Writing Ever wondered how to write a book and get it published? Allen Ottens, [...]

Manuscript Digest: April – May 2022 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost [...]