Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2008 No Comments »
In 1846, while living at Brook Farm (the Transcendentalist utopian experiment in communal living) in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, artist Marianne Dwight (later Orvis) compiled this album of watercolor flower portraits. Dwight (1816-1901) made a living creating lampshades and paintings, and her detailed punchwork designs can be seen on the cover of the album (click the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 20th, 2008 No Comments »
We are pleased to announce a new online exhibition, “Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200,” based on the 2007 exhibition curated by Christoph Irmscher.
This exhibition seeks to represent Longfellow as he really was: not as the bogeyman of modernists wanting to exorcize the ghosts of their Victorian past, but as a consummate [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »
We recently acquired two very different manuscript library catalogs: one, a list of books purchased for the Reading Society, Benevolent Society, and Sunday School of Bury, Lancashire from 1806-1826, and the second, the catalogue of the Dundas family’s private library at Melville Castle near Edinburgh, compiled in 1862. Library catalogs often can be much more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Among our recent new acquisitions is a manuscript collection of Anne McCaffrey’s 1977 novel Dragonsinger, the second book in her Harper Hall trilogy and a part of the Dragonriders of Pern series.
McCaffrey, a Radcliffe alum originally from Cambridge, has authored over 90 works. This collection follows the creation of the novel, originally titled “The Harper [...]