Manuscript Society Blog
May 7, 2020
John Holmes Jenkins was a Texan. He was a gambler. A rare book collector. Poker pro “Amarillo Slim” Preston described [...]
May 5, 2020
Manuscript Digest – May 2020 – This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and [...]
April 16, 2020
August 2, 1939 - Physicist Leó Szilárd writes a letter signed by Albert Einstein. It is sent to Franklin D. [...]
April 13, 2020
Stacie Peterson is exhibitions manager and registrar at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. [...]
April 7, 2020
Volunteers Needed Become a Digital Volunteer. Help make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible. The Smithsonian Transcription Center wants [...]
April 6, 2020
In The Hunt for History, Manuscript Society member, Nathan Raab shares some fascinating stories about his professional exploits. Whether it’s [...]
April 5, 2020
March 6, 2020 is the 214th birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How Do We Celebrate Thee? Visit the Armstrong Browning [...]
April 3, 2020
David Library of the American Revolution is partnering with the venerable American Philosophical Society. Located at Fifth and Chestnut Streets [...]
April 2, 2020
Manuscript Digest – April 2020 – This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and [...]
April 2, 2020
Harry Belafonte Archives The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has acquired the personal archive [...]
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