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  • Manuscript Mondays: The Warren G. Harding–Carrie Fulton Phillips Correspondence: A tangled tale of ownership rights, romance, and archival ethics

    Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Monday – Free Live Webinar – Monday, October 3, 2022 – 8PM Eastern Time Guest: Karen Linn Femia, Archivist (Library of Congress) Host: Brian Kathenes “The Warren G. Harding–Carrie Fulton Phillips Correspondence: A tangled tale of ownership rights, romance, and archival ethics” On July 22, 2014, the Library of […]

  • Manuscript Monday – History in Your Hands: A Passion for Collecting

    Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Presenter: Dr. Stuart Embury                                                           Moderator: Brian Kathenes John Sloan Letter – collection of S. Embury It’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, or perhaps Georgia O’Keeffe.  You’ve read about them or seen their art, but now you reading their words written in their hand. You are holding […]

  • Diaries & Letters From the Virginia Women Writers Archive

    Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Mondays – Free, Live Webinar Monday, April 1, 2024 8:00 pm Eastern Daylight time Join Jay Gaidmore – From the Special Collections Research Center, at the Earl Gregg Swem Library (College of William & Mary) When most people hear of a writer’s archives, they think of books and authors. […]

  • Write Long and Beautiful Letters: The Vallejos’ Californio Correspondence, 1846–1888

    Book Club of California

    The experiences of Mexicans who were living in California when it was annexed by the United States is a crucial element of the history of the American Southwest. These Californios, as they called themselves, made California diverse and multi-cultural from the moment it became part of the United States. The Vallejos of Sonoma were one […]