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Manuscript Digest – February/March 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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IRS Updates Requirements on Appraisals and Appraisers
In November, 2017, Manuscript Society Member, Stuart Lutz, wrote an article, Can I Deduct that? An Introduction to Appraisals for the society journal, Manuscripts. He included the proposed parameters issued by the IRS. Stuart noted new requirements for appraisers and outlined questions collectors needed to ask of appraisers and the [...]
Dave Smith, Society Member and Disney Archivist dies at 78
From 1958 through the remainder of his life, David R. Smith was an integral part in The Manuscript Society. As he told Kevin Segall in a recent interview, "I joined [The Manuscript Society] in 1958. When I was able to begin attending the annual meetings, I was thrilled to find [...]
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 [...]
