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Manuscript Digest: October – November 2022 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more news in this digest … […]
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Lost: Lessons from the Carnegie Library Theft
Lost: Lessons from the Carnegie Library Theft Michael J. Dabrishus “They are only sorry that we discovered what they did,” said Mary Frances Cooper, director of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. She was speaking as a witness at the June [2020] sentencing of Gregory Priore and John Schulman. The sentencing testimony [...]
Charles Darwin Notebooks Reported Stolen
Charles Darwin Notebooks Missing Charles Darwin photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1881 Cambridge, England 2000 - Charles Darwin's Notebooks are removed from the stacks to be photographed. Two notebooks, including Darwin’s seminal 1837 Tree of Life sketch. The work is completed in November 2000. In January 2001 during [...]
Mel Blanc: A Portrait in Manuscripts
Mel Blanc: A Portrait in Manuscripts By Kevin Segall Figure 1. An inscribed, dated, and signed photograph of Mel Blanc Figure 2. An inscribed and signed title page from Mel Blanc’s book. 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of the debut of Bugs Bunny which led me [...]
Fridtjof Nansen – Arctic Explorer and More
Fridtjof Nansen. Image courtesy of the Fram Museum website. Fridtjof Nansen: Arctic Explorer, Scientist, Author, Diplomat, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize By James D. West Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was an Arctic explorer. Also a skiing enthusiast who was a 12-time cross country champion in his native [...]
Virtual Possibilities -podcasts, lectures, interviews and more
Abraham Lincoln Book Shop https://www.facebook.com/AbrahamLincolnBookShop/ In-person browsing is in a state of suspended animation. No worries, Dan Weinberg brings his bookshop to the browser each Friday at 1 p.m. Central time. Take a Break With History interviews are streamed from Abraham Lincoln Book Shop’s Facebook page. Missed an episode? Come [...]
The Book of Lismore is Back in Cork
The Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement are donating The Book of Lismore to University College Cork. Created in the late 15th century, this major medieval manuscript is from the golden age of Irish literature. It is one of the Great Books of Ireland. The Book of Lismore @artdaily [...]
National Woman’s Party Archive Donated
l00th Anniversary Timed to coordinate with the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, The Library of Congress is doubling the library’s holdings related to the National Woman's Party. Already in the LOC's holdings are 200,000 items from the NWP. This valuable donation unites the remaining archive of 300,000 documents, photographs, [...]
