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Manuscript Society Digest: August-September 2022
Manuscript Digest: August – September 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 the News Past Perils of Presidential Papers Stars and Stripes | Washington Post, August 27, 2022 [...]
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Interview: Harold Holzer on The Presidents vs the Press
AN INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD HOLZER Harold Holzer @ Matt Capowski In 1996 Harold Holzer received the Manuscript Society Book Award for his Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President. Our award is only one among many bestowed on Mr. Holzer, which include the 2015 Gilder-Lehman Lincoln Prize and [...]
Lincoln Letters – You Can Read Them
Library of Congress - Lincoln Letters Project Last month, the Library of Congress completed a two-year, crowdsourced project to transcribe 10,000 documents in its vast collection of Abraham Lincoln’s papers and make them legible. Now anyone can read the scribbling of correspondents. Each wrote with a variety of spelling, grammar [...]
World War II Letters On Line
75 Years in the Making September 1945. A call goes out. It was from Kansas City radio broadcaster Ted Malone. Malone hosted a nationally-syndicated ABC show "Between the Bookends." He asked listeners to send in wartime correspondence. The letters would be considered for a book of war letters. The book [...]
Douglass Scrapbooks and Papers go to Yale
Dr. Walter Evans, a leading collector of African-American art, acquired the bulk of his Douglass collection in the 1980s from a dealer. The collection became a seedbed for Dr. Blight’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 biography “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” And now, it has been acquired by Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book [...]
Anti-Slavery Manuscript Project – Volunteer
At the end of the 19th century, family members and associates of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison donated a number of his letters and other documents to the Boston Public Library. They are now in the Anti-Slavery Collection. Today, the archive has grown to include roughly 40,000 items—letters, pamphlets, books, memorabilia, [...]
Rowan Public Library – We Salute You
From Rowan Public Library: Rowan Public Library’s Edith M. Clark History Room collections are directly benefiting from a dedicated teleworking Library Staff. They are updating and transcribing collections. This provides valuable information for all researchers. The History Room concentrates primarily on Western North Carolina genealogy and history. This includes all [...]
New Shusaku Endo Novel Found
An unpublished manuscript by acclaimed author Shusaku Endo was discovered at the museum dedicated to his works in Nagasaki, Japan. This complete novel is the first time a fair copy of a finished novel by Endo has turned up since is death in 1996. The discovery was made on June [...]
