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Manuscript Digest –January 2021 – 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. […]
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2019 Maass Research Grant Deadline Looming
Deadline looming. February 14, 2019 is the final date to submit a complete application for the 2019 Richard Maass Research Grant. The $5,000 grant supports research expenses directly related to use of original manuscripts. This includes travel to manuscript repositories, photocopies, and user fees. Applicants must be graduate students. Doctoral [...]
Autograph Collecting: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Pedro Corrêa do Lago of Brazil, has collected for over five decades. His collection of autographs is the largest in the world. It surpasses his personal inspiration, John Pierpont Morgan. Richard Hall is a collector, appraisals expert, and adviser on manuscripts to Alex Cooper Auctioneers in Maryland. Both men are [...]
Interview: Member Highlight – Iowa Masonic Library and Museums
The Manuscript Society News takes readers on a never-ending road trip to member institutions. Next stop: the Iowa Masonic Library and Museums located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This white marble structure is home to one of the largest and most complete libraries of Freemasonry and allied orders in the United [...]
Secrets in the Johnson Archives
Washington, October 1940; Samuel Houston Johnson; Alice Glass; Big Oil.... Historian Robert de Caro's article "The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives" illuminates the discoveries and challenges found when researching in manuscripts! Remembering his first visit to the Johnson Presidential Library and Archives in Austin, "In front of me was a [...]
James H. Billington dies at 86
James H. Billington, an eminent American scholar of Russian culture who led the Library of Congress for three decades as librarian of Congress, died Nov. 20 at a hospital in Washington. He was 89. An advisor to President Reagan, a skilled fund-raiser for the library, and force unto himself, Billington propelling [...]
Interview: Member Spotlight – J.B. Muns Fine Arts Books
This Member Spotlight shines on J. B. Muns, proprietor of J. B. Muns Fine Arts Books in Berkeley, California. J. B. specializes in musical autographs and manuscripts. She shared the story of how she started out, how the field has changed, and what’s coming next with Manuscript Society President Al [...]
My First Autographs – I Was Nine Years Old
Rocky and Bullwinkle, Smurfette, Crusader Rabbit, and Scooby-Doo are cartoon favorites of millions of children. Not every child however, has the chance to meet the voices! Society member Kevin Segall shares his story of his first autographs. My First Autographs By Kevin Segall I was nine years old in 1983 [...]
