An international organization of persons and institutions devoted to the collection, preservation, use, and enjoyment of autographs and manuscripts.
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Stephen King has written 70 book in 50 years. In 2021 he put his manuscript drafts into a secure archive. One scholar, Caroline Bicks, got access. On Manuscript Mondays, she reveals what she discovered. Join our webinar June 15 at 8 p.m. ET. If you dare. manuscript.org/event/monster…
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Between July 4 and the early morning of July 5, 1776, John Dunlap’s Philadelphia press churned out copies of the Declaration of Independence. After 250 years, 26 still survive. One is on display at the Grey Museum in New York. See what else is on show. finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…
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A manuscript from Edo-period Japan. A record of an 1873 expedition to Greenland. Letters from a British man out to make his fortune in 1804 United States. A diatribe from a vendetta in colonial Mexico. Just some of the new acquisitions at the Huntington. pasadenaweekly.com/arts_and_…
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Sometime after July 1918, Edith Wharton wrote a short story — or started one. It tells of dinner guests at a French chateau as the Great War rumbles to a close. For a century the story lay in her archives. Then the Strand magazine discovered it. theguardian.com/books/2026/j…
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A broadside for the first Thanksgiving, 1777. An 1823 Stone engraving of the Declaration of Independence. Tickets to Ford's Theatre for the night of Lincoln's assassination. All in the last tranche of the Jim Irsay Collection: Icons of History auction. finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…
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Talk about multitasking. When George Washington was a colonel in the Seven Years’ War, he wrote down a recipe for small beer. Bran hops. Molasses. Yeast. Beer! Just in time for America’s 250th, NYPL and a local brewery are bringing it back to life. smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…
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A book collector was searching the web for treasures when something caught his eye: a slim volume marked with the stamps of San Francisco’s Mechanics’ Institute Library — and soot from the city’s 1906 earthquake and fire. How had it survived? nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/li…
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Archaeologists recently found an 800-year-old notebook. Pocket-size. Ten pages of Latin text. In nearly perfect condition. Which is remarkable considering where it was found. smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…
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A holy grail of manuscripts reappears. Losses from the Whitney theft resurface. Cursive makes a comeback. Mel Brooks makes the laughs last. Just some of the news in the latest Manuscript Society Digest. p0.vresp.com/rAtTZq
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Thornton Wilder left an unfinished play. Shards and jumbles of marginalia and notes, both textual and musical. The sequence was slippery, character names shifted… Could another hand bring it to life? thorntonwilder.com/blog/2026…
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Stanley Seeger was born into money. With his partner, Christopher Cone, he spent it freely. A Beethoven manuscript. Original art for Winnie-the-Pooh. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in a jewelled binding. Now Seeger is gone, and Cole is selling. See more. thetimes.com/culture/art/art…
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Eric Weiner traced Benjamin Franklin’s travels from Boston to London, Philadelphia to Paris and back again. Franklin loved Paris, and it loved him back. See what Weiner discovered — including, in Franklin’s sunset years, a connection with Marie Antoinette. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/trave…
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Breaking news! America declares independence from Great Britain. In the summer of 1776, the news spread as fast as printers and riders could carry it. Eight original printings at the Boston Public Library show how the declaration was received. wcvb.com/article/declaration…
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Mel Brooks is about to become a 100-year-old man. And he’s making a gift: he’s donating his archive to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York. His collection joins that of his longtime comedy partner Carl Reiner. Hold for laughter. avclub.com/mel-brooks-donate…
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The Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library has expanded its holdings with the Mary C. Schlosser Collection of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A highlight: issues of the newspaper The Nation where the novel first appeared. finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…
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Marilyn Monroe’s centenary is just around the corner — time for auctions featuring her letters, art, and memorabilia. See some of the highlights. smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…
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Earlier this month, an archivist at Morley College London opened a box to do some spring cleaning. What she found made her look twice. She was right: it was an unknown composition handwritten by a young Ralph Vaughan Williams. thetimes.com/culture/music/a…
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“I’m not a rare book collector; I’m not a first-editions collector. I am a collector of books that influenced me,” says author Amor Towles. “A signature means that it was in the hand of the author. That’s an incredible concept.” What’s on his shelf. nytimes.com/2026/05/12/books…
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In 1962 Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” sparked public demands for environmental action. See her handwritten drafts for the groundbreaking book — along with unpublished letters, photographs, and notebooks — May 18-October 4 at Yale’s Beinecke Library. finebooksmagazine.com/fine-b…
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You say you want a revolution? See this year’s Firsts London book fair. Beyond the American anniversary, the revolution theme echoes in the idea of book fairs as “experience culture” — and a new generation of buyers and sellers connecting first online. dnyuz.com/2026/05/12/revolut…
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