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One of Jane Austen’s letters written to her sister Cassandra in 1805 chronicling the social life of…
RR Auction's online September Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction includes more than…
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The Folio Society has announced that Neil Gaiman will be a guest judge for its annual Folio Book Illustration Award. He will be judging work based on his short story The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains. 
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The New-York Historical Society has announced a special installation - New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam - on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch founding of a colony that would give rise to New York City.
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Bonhams will be offering The American Presidency curated sale of Presidential ephemera online from February 11 featuring a reange of interesting documents and letters. Highlights include:  * President Kennedy's last day official schedule annotated by with minute-by-minute detail (…
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A new exhibition of contemporary artists’ books at the Grolier Club celebrates hundreds of years of communication through real and imagined languages. On view from February 29 through May 11 in the New York club’s second floor gallery, Language, Decipherment, and Translation – from…
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Closed since 2019, the Emily Dickinson Museum has now completed a multi-year preservation effort at The Evergreens, aimed at improving environmental conditions for objects in its recently documented collection, and reducing energy consumption.
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In December 2023, the Charles Dickens Museum bought 120 previously unpublished letters written by Georgina Hogarth, the author's sister-in-law, housekeeper, friend and confidante, who lived with Charles Dickens from 1842, aged 15, until Dickens’s death in 1870.  
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The American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Columbia University Libraries have announced ABA’s donation of the association’s extensive organizational and bookseller archives to the university to be housed in Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML).
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The Folger Shakespeare Library has announced that its historic home on Capitol Hill will reopen on June 21, 2024.
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Marilyn Monroe’s Connecticut driver’s license, signed by her as 'Marilyn Monroe Miller' is among the highlights at University Archives' February 21 Rare Signed Manuscripts, Books, Photos, and Relics sale.The ca. July 28, 1958 license lists Monroe’s birthday, height, and address in Roxbury,…
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Andreas Vesalius's own annotated copy of his magnun opus, De humani corporis fabrica, has found a new home and will be on display at KU Leuven, the oldest university in the Low Countries following the Christie’s Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts sale.