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Blog Entries by Carolyn Vega from 03/2011

"Clarissa" Explains It All

| Posted 03.14.2011 | New York
Read More: Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, The Morgan Library & Museum, Parenting, Frances Grainger, Samuel Richardson Letters, New York News

Over 250 years after its publication, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa still has the honor of being the longest novel in the English language.

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Theodore Roosevelt on His Presidency: "In the End the Boldness of the Action Fully Justified Itself"

| Posted 03.17.2011 | New York
Read More: Presidents, Memoir, The Morgan Library & Museum, Theodore Roosevelt, Autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Theoore Roosevelt Autobiography, New York News

Roosevelt's Autobiography, which begins with an account of his birth and boyhood, is peppered with detailed personal anecdotes and theoretical asides.

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Collecting Hawthorne: (Not) Only a Woman's Hair

| Posted 03.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Journals, Museum, Diaries, The Scarlet Letter, New York News

When J.P. Morgan purchased part of Wakeman's library in 1909, he acquired,"the greatest body in existence of the writings of perhaps the greatest of all American authors" -- that is, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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