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Manuscript Society members are always looking for an item to complete a collection.  A letter, an image, a photograph, it [...]

Book Reviews: It is all about education. Whether you collect books or autographs or both, the educated collector is the [...]

January 23rd - National Handwriting Day Page of Manuscript - In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust - [...]

  Anderson’s record of the 238 yellow fever patients admitted to Bellevue between August and October 1795; 137 of [...]

Letterlocking Letterlocking used complicated folds to seal correspondence. (Unlocking History Research Group Archive) What do Mary Queen of [...]

Manuscript Digest – February/March 2021 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and [...]

Collecting Conversations: An Interview with William Fliss, Archivist of Special Collections and University Archives at Marquette University. Curator, J. R. [...]

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired the personal papers of Thomas T. Eckert (1825–1910). Left: [...]

William Henry Dorsey William Henry Dorsey was an African American of means who lived in 19th-century Philadelphia.  Like many others [...]

For everyone who has every collected books, stamps, coins and certainly manuscripts you remember the moment.  You make one purchase [...]