Manuscript Society Blog

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    June 5, 2019

    Manuscript Digest –June 2019– This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare [...]

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    June 3, 2019

    Manuscript Society members come from various backgrounds and quite diverse interests. Collectors, archivists, historians, dealers, universities, historical societies, private libraries [...]

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    May 20, 2019

    In Boston, MA at the annual meeting of the Manuscript Society in April 2019, the general membership in attendance elected [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    May 20, 2019

    An Alexander Hamilton letter written in 1780 has come to light. This handwritten signed letter is from Hamilton to the [...]

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    May 10, 2019

    Manuscript Digest –May 2019– This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare [...]

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    April 15, 2019

    Beowulf! How many of us remember our school days reading, or at least trying to read, "classics" like Beowulf, Chaucer's [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    April 15, 2019

    Books vanishing into the ether world. Unknown until now.  All discovered from a lost volume now found! No, it is [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    April 5, 2019

    Manuscript Digest –April 2019– This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare [...]

  • Manuscript with pen on a piece of paper

    March 8, 2019

    Manuscript Digest –March 2019– This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare [...]

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    February 26, 2019

    He began collection in 1959. But not the usual letters. They were Time Magazines. He would send them off asking [...]