Manuscript Society Blog

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    September 1, 2020

    Manuscript Digest – September 2020 – This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    August 12, 2020

    Library of Congress - Lincoln Letters Project Last month, the Library of Congress completed a two-year, crowdsourced project to transcribe [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    August 6, 2020

    Manuscript Digest – August 2020 – This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    July 7, 2020

    75 Years in the Making September 1945.  A call goes out.  It was from Kansas City radio broadcaster Ted Malone. [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    July 6, 2020

    Dr. Walter Evans,  a leading collector of African-American art, acquired the bulk of his Douglass collection in the 1980s from [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    July 1, 2020

    Manuscript Digest – July 2020 – This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    July 1, 2020

    At the end of the 19th century, family members and associates of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison donated a number of [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    June 30, 2020

    From Rowan Public Library: Rowan Public Library’s Edith M. Clark History Room collections are directly benefiting from a dedicated teleworking [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    June 29, 2020

    An unpublished manuscript by acclaimed author Shusaku Endo was discovered at the museum dedicated to his works in Nagasaki, Japan. [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    June 25, 2020

    Over the last couple of years most of us have followed with concern, horror and then anger resulting from the [...]