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Digest: July & August – 2024
Manuscript Digest: July – August 2024 – 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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Roger Brooke Taney – A Search for Correspondence
The Papers of Roger Brooke Taney Do you have in your collection any correspondence to or from Roger Taney? Those who are collectors of Andrew Jackson certainly know the name! He supported and served Andrew Jackson during Jackson's presidency. To most history students he is most famous as the man [...]
Society Board of Trustees: Class of 2026
Board of Trustees Class of 2026 Below are three society members who have committed to service on the Board of Trustees for the next three years. One is a brand new board member and two have taken on a second term. We thank them all for their commitment to the [...]
MM On-Demand: July Beach Party (7/3/2023)
Fourth of July on the beach It’s our Manuscript Mondays Almost Independence Day Virtual Summer Beach Party! Monday July 3, 2023 - 8:00 PM Eastern – Live We’ll open it up to a virtual gathering of friends, lively discussion, and a show and tell. This is a [...]
Chemistry of Making Paper
By NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) - originally posted to Flickr as Gutenberg Bible, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9914015 For the collector of documents, manuscripts, letters, we know that paper making is an ancient practice. Before the industrialization of the paper production the most common fiber source was recycled fibers [...]
MM On-Demand: History in Your Hands
History in Your Hands: A Passion for Collecting Rembrandt Peale Letter- Embury Collection It’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, or perhaps Mary Cassatt. You’ve read about them or seen their art, but now you read their words written in their hand. You are [...]
MM On-Demand: Contemporary Issues and Opportunities in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting
It is a big world out there! There are many places to purchase manuscripts and books. Brick and mortar locations, online, via auctions, independent dealers, virtual and live shows. Options are almost endless. Each option is continually changing. What to do… where to go…. Spencer Stuart and Brian Kathenes will [...]
2023 Shapiro Book Prize: “Happy Dreams of Liberty”
2023 Shapiro Book Prize Lecture March 29, 2023 - 7:30 PM (Pacific Time) - Live via Zoom R. Isabela Morales, winner of the 2023 Shapiro Book Prize, talks about her book “Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom,” and shares the story of the 19th-century Townsend [...]
