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Manuscript Digest: January – February 2025 – 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 this digest. […]
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MM On-Demand: Food, Culture and Traditions with Christine von der Linn & Lizzy Young (7/1/24)
A Rare Book Summer Picnic: Conversations on Food, Cultural History and The Dining Table Overview With feet firmly planted in both the book and culinary worlds, Christine von der Linn and Lizzy Young will present in a casual, live, panel format stories of books and food and food history. Plus [...]
2024 Officers and Board of Trustees
At the Business Meeting of the attending Membership in San Antonio, Texas, Saturday, May 18, 2024 the new Officers and Board of Trustees members were voted into office. Below is a a complete list of the current Board of Trustees and Past Presidents Officers President: Jim West is a lifelong [...]
The Original Wikipedia: 18th Century Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s Siku Quanshu Project (5/6/24)
In 1772, Emperor Qianlong of China, a prolific poet, major art patron, and insatiable collector, ordered the largest encyclopedic compilation of books in Chinese history. Within 10 years, a team of more than 350 scholars and hundreds of editors had compiled 36,381 volumes (2.3 million pages) of the Siku Quanshu. Also known [...]
Santiago Conti – 2024 Maass Research Grant Recipient
2024 Maass Research Grant Recipient Announced The Scholarship Committee of the Manuscript Society has awarded its $5,000 Maass Scholarship to Santiago Conti. Conti is a historian of Colonial Latin America and a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. Conti will use the award to cover the [...]
MM On-Demand: Virginia Women Writers Archive with Jay Gaidmore (4/1/24)
Overview When most people hear of a writer's archives, they think of books and authors. But not the Virginia Women Writers Archive at the Special Collections Research Center in the Earl Gregg Swem Library (College of William & Mary). This archive also collects diaries, letters, memory books, and other unpublished [...]
40th Florida Antiquarian Book Fair – Visit Us
40th Annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair The oldest and largest antiquarian book fair in the Southeastern United States, and one of the largest in the nation. March 1-3, 2024 The Coliseum - St Petersburg, Florida Visit a number of Manuscript Society Members at their booths Stop to say hello to [...]
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: A Must Visit
Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz from the Billy Ireland archives (photo by Nora Hickey Hyperallergic) Archie, Terry and the Pirates, Calvin and Hodges, Dick Tracy, Nancy. Some of the iconic cartoon strips found in the archives of the Billie Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at The Ohio State [...]
