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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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Maass Research Grant for 2021 Suspended
2021 Grant Cancelled As a result of the Pandemic, scholars are having difficulty contacting and accessing manuscript collections around the world. Consequently, the Board of the Manuscript Society has voted NOT to award the Maass Grant of $5,000 to a graduate student in the spring of 2021. Hopefully, the application [...]
Interview: Alfred Lemmon
Collecting Conversations: An interview with Alfred Lemmon, Director of the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection by Beverly Hill Alfred Lemmon, Director of Williams Research Center, HNOC BH: What does your position as director of the Williams Research Center entail? AL: One of the aspects [...]
Gauguin’s manuscript ‘Avant et après’
A unique and richly illustrated text by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin comes to the United Kingdom. Part-memoir and part-manifesto, the 213-page manuscript, titled Avant et après (Before and after) reveals important insights into Gauguin's life. This includes his relationships and thoughts plus numerous drawings and prints by the [...]
2017 Feltham Theft – 200 items Recovered
January 2017 - at a Depot in Feltham, near London. Repelling down and back up ropes, the thieves stole 200 centuries-old books. First editions of Galileo and Newton, a text by Italian scholar Petrarch, rare versions of Dante, plus, 80 sketches by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya were among the [...]
Americana is a Creed & Celluloid Paper Trail, reviews
As Bill Butts says, “It is all about education." The educated collector is the savvy collector. Each year reference works, how-tos, exhibition catalogs, bibliographies, and memoirs useful to collectors are published. Unfortunately, they receive little attention in the media. Bill takes the time to review 3 to 6 books in [...]
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 [...]
