Manuscripts

Percy Bysshe Shelley "On Life"

Carolyn Vega | Posted 03.10.2012

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Carolyn Vega

2012-01-09-pullquote.jpgThis essay, which is considered one of his most important prose works, was first penned sometime in late 1819 in the back of a small vellum-bound notebook.

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What Heaven Looks Like: Part 4 -- World's Strangest Paintings for the New Year

James Elkins | Posted 02.27.2012

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James Elkins

I am serializing an unpublished book in this column. It's about an amazing, mysterious manuscript I discovered in Scotland.

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What Heaven Looks Like: Part 3

James Elkins | Posted 02.05.2012

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King John's 1205 Charter

Carolyn Vega | Posted 12.18.2011

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Coleridge Varies His "Inscription on a Time-piece"

Carolyn Vega | Posted 11.20.2011

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Carolyn Vega

In the late 1890s, an unknown dealer or collector assembled letters that were titled Sir Walter Scott: Letters of his Friends and Contemporaries. One of my favorite items in this is a poem in the hand of a very aged Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Anonymous Scott

Carolyn Vega | Posted 11.15.2011

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Carolyn Vega

Recently, I read Scott's letters to the Marchioness of Abercorn. Their correspondence began in 1806 (with a letter, incidentally, that contains the earliest surviving reference to his work on The Lady of the Lake), and for a number of years they wrote each other frequently.

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The Research Fellowship That Uncovered a New Story of 19th Century New York

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steven Carl Smith is working on a dissertation about New York City in the 19th century, with a focus on the publishing industry and how it developed.

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A Getty Curator Discusses Manuscripts, France, And The Middle Ages: Imagining The Past

Elizabeth Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elizabeth Morrison

Manuscripts often contain written accounts and visual representations of history, but sometimes the history of a manuscript -- who commissioned it, ho...

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Kafka Manuscripts: The Fight Over Kafka

Rodger Kamenetz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rodger Kamenetz

Who does Kafka belong to? The court case in Israel over the past two years will eventually decide the proper ownership of certain manuscripts of Kafka's.

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"Slush Pile": Where Did The Words Come From?

The Awl | Jane Hu | Posted 05.25.2011

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According to the OED, the first occurrence of "slush pile" was not in reference to what we commonly now know as unsolicited manuscripts from unheard-o...

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