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Digest – December 2020
Manuscript Digest –December 2020 – This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more. […]
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David Lowenherz: encounters with Lee Israel and “Can You Ever Forgive Me”
The recent events at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania highlight the challenges of any public or private institution that houses manuscripts. The desire to allow patrons to see, touch, and read manuscripts, letters, books, maps and other parts of the collection is at the core of a library’s mission. [...]
2019 Richard Maass Research Grant Applications Now Being Accepted
Applications are due February 14, 2019, and decisions will be announced shortly after March 17. The $5,000 grant supports research expenses directly related to use of original manuscripts such as travel to manuscript repositories, photocopies, and user fees. Applicants must be graduate students—doctoral candidates are given preference—at an institution that [...]
Emily Dickinson Letters – Scholars Request
Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo, SUNY) and Domhnall Mitchell (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) are preparing a new edition of Emily Dickinson’s complete letters, to be published by Harvard University Press. We are making new transcriptions of every letter (last transcribed and edited by Johnson and Ward in 1958). [...]
Follow the Food: A Non-Foodie’s Adventures
In April 2018, the Society had it's annual meeting in New Orleans. Along with the amazing architecture, history and music there is the food, wonderful, glorious food. One of the attendees, Susan Hecht, a self described non-foodie, shares her travels through the gastronomy of New Orleans. Follow the Food: Whereby [...]
Society Board of Trustees – Class of 2021
The newest group of individuals of the Board of Trustees for the Manuscript Society were voted into office by the membership at the Annual Business Meeting in New Orleans in 2018. They are now members of the class of 2021. Meet them now: Brian G. Kathenes, ISA CAPP, is a [...]
Society Board of Trustees – Class of 2020
The 2020 Class of the Board of Trustees are: Elizabeth H. Dow, PhD, is returning to fill out Doug Rohrman’s term as he takes on the Vice Presidency. Dr. Dow created and directed the archives track at Louisiana State University. Today she is the Franklin Bayhi Professor Emeritus in its [...]
Society Board of Trustees – Class of 2019
Members of the Board of Trustees commit to a term of three years. The members whose current terms will be completed in 2019 are: Richard Ellis, MD, is a physician in the practice of pathology at a community hospital in San Pedro, California. His collection of letters and photographs centers [...]
