"During his career, Gould wrote 300 consecutive essays for Natural History, the monthly magazine of the American Museum of Natural History, and more than 20 books, many of them bestsellers. He also assembled what he believed was a definitive library of the history of early paleontology, said Rhonda Shearer, Gould's widow."
"ATLANTA — A legal battle over prized documents purportedly belonging to Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell has blown over but the final resting place of the disputed papers is still a secret."
"The legal sparring involving the cache — apparently discovered in a file cabinet decades after they were written — was settled in January but no one will say where the trove of documents is now."
"In addition to faculty members who helped revolutionize dance (Merce Cunningham), music (John Cage), the fine arts (Robert Motherwell) and architecture (Water Gropius), Black Mountain nurtured some of the nation's most innovative poets, including Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan and Jonathan Williams. Its legendary journal, the Black Mountain Review, showcased experimental writing that helped change how people looked at literature and the world."
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"CARBONDALE — John LaPine, owner of Printers Row Fine & Rare Books in Chicago, will present a copy of the first book of poetry published by an African American to David Carlson, dean of Library Affairs, at noon Friday, April 11, in a brief ceremony at Morris Library. "
"One week after Lincoln Foundation officials announced the imminent closing of the museum, the board announced the appointment of a committee to discuss the issues surrounding the decision and determine what is best for the collection and for Fort Wayne, said Mike Westfall, Friends of the Lincoln Museum board president, in a statement."
"If Bennett and his colleague, Geoff Smith, head of OSU's Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, have their way, more folks -- academics and laymen alike -- will get a chance to know Burroughs through an ambitious new series of books being published by the Ohio State University Press."
"Much of the Lincoln Museum’s extensive collection – a treasure trove for historians that includes 18,000 books and 350 documents signed by Lincoln, among other rarities – will be digitized or sent to other museums around the country, possibly making it more difficult for researchers to access them all."
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"During his mid-30s, French poet Paul Éluard underwent a personal crisis when his wife left him for a young, up-and-coming painter by the name of Salvador Dali. "
"What happened then is a mix ture of myth and legend."
"ATLANTA, Georgia -- A legal battle over prized documents purportedly belonging to 'Gone With the Wind' author Margaret Mitchell has blown over, but the final resting place of the disputed papers is still a secret."
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"A Canadian antiquarian is set to auction a remarkable set of letters written by Queen Victoria in which the grief-stricken monarch confides her deep sorrow over the death of John Brown, the Scottish royal aide whose close relationship with the widowed Queen sparked rumours of a romance in the 19th century and inspired the hit film Mrs. Brown in the 1990s."
"Next year, Darwin will be 200, and 2009 will also mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.'"
"The Natural History Museum in New York City is exhibiting the most comprehensive ever on Darwin's life and work. 'Darwin' includes more than 400 artifacts, specimens and documents. "
"A first edition copy of "The Great Gatsby" inscribed with a note from F. Scott Fitzgerald to T.S. Eliot was one of three rare books donated to the John Hay Library by Daniel Siegel '57 in December."
"LONDON - Got 48 hours to explore the literary haunts of London? The British capital is a treasure trove of pubs, museums and hotels steeped in booklore. Reuters correspondents with a mix of local knowledge give tips on how to spend a short stay."
"Emory’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL) is sifting through more than 120 boxes of journals, correspondence, photos and other materials from renowned author Alice Walker that arrived at Emory on Dec. 20 after a many-year search for a library to house them."
"In 2002, Owen won first prize in an international calligraphy competition in Osimo, Italy. Her handmade books have been featured in numerous book art exhibits and her work has been collected by the Library of Congress, Harvard University, Yale University and by other museums, libraries and private collectors. She is represented by Joshua Heller Rare Books in Washington, DC. "
"Got 48 hours to explore the literary haunts of London? The British capital is a treasure trove of pubs, museums and hotels steeped in booklore. Reuters correspondents with a mix of local knowledge give tips on how to spend a short stay."
"'The O’Neill Festival at Ten,' 10 nights of free readings, screenings and musical events featuring Zoe Caldwell, Charles Durning, Brian Murray, Natasha Richardson, Marian Seldes and KT Sullivan, will take place at the Provincetown Playhouse on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village..."
"'People of the Book' opens right after the Bosnian war. It's 1996, and the Haggadah has just turned up in a bank vault, where it was hidden by a Muslim librarian who rescued the codex under heavy shelling. Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath has been given the job of analyzing and conserving the book, 'a lavishly illuminated Hebrew manuscript made at a time when Jewish belief was firmly against illustrations of any kind.'"
"ATLANTA -- Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker is placing her literary archive at Emory University's library."
"The author of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Color Purple,' 'By the Light of My Father's Smile' and other works visits Emory every couple of years for readings and meetings with faculty members."
"A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for £1.95 million at auction on Thursday."
"GENEVA, N.Y - A rare first edition of the Book of Mormon once owned by a Utah newspaper music critic fetched $97,900 at auction. "
"SALT LAKE CITY - A first-edition Book of Mormon - the foundation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - is set for auction this week and could fetch nearly $100,000. "
The Rosenbach Museum & Library is celebrating the work of Maurice Sendak with an expansion of its gallery space and 'Really Rosie,' a new show exploring the children's book author's collaboration with singer-songwriter Carole King."
"A first edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, number 349 of 1,000 published, was discovered by volunteers Jennifer Jones and Noelle Williamson at the small Pepper Street charity shop amongst a bag of second-hand books."
"Since the 1997 release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (the book was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone when it was released in the US), the series has proven to be one of the most popular in history. It's reported that as of April 2007, the series had sold more than 325 million copies and had been translated into more than 60 different languages. The first five books have been made into blockbuster films, with the sixth set to begin filming later this year."
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"The exhibit, which will feature authors such as William Blake, Lord Byron and John Keats, will make its debut at the library at 6 p.m. today and remain showcased until the end of the December."
"From 1928 to 1943, Paul S. Powers churned out 12,000-word novelettes and short stories — at a penny-and-a-half per word — for Wild West Weekly, which specialized in the genre known as pulp Westerns."
"An undisclosed phone bidder paid a New York auction house $180,000 Wednesday for an 1896 volume of Geoffrey Chaucer's work."
'The Kelmscott Chaucer,' a pigskin-bound collection of works by the "Canterbury Tales" author is rare, with only 48 copies known to exist."
"A number of pets graced the Dickens household over the years, including all manner of dogs, cats and ponies. But Charles' favorite pets were his two ravens, both known as Grip."
"SYRACUSE, New York (AP) — A 177-year-old first edition of the Book of Mormon found in a home near Palmyra - the birthplace of the Mormon religion - will be put up for bid next week at an upstate New York estate auction."
"Following the auction of the Archimedes Palimpsest, the anonymous buyer entrusted the manuscript to the care of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore for conservation and study. RIT’s second chance to work on the document came in 2000, when Johnston, Easton and Knox, then at Xerox Corp., became part of an international team of scholars, conservators and scientists invested in the recovery of the overwritten document."
" The auction will feature the Pamela and Richard M. Estes Collection
comprised of fine bindings and illustrated books dating from the 15th to
20th centuries. Most notable in the collection is The Kelmscott Chaucer,
one of only 48 surviving copies. With type and decorative borders designed
by William Morris, one of the greatest English designers of the 19th
century, the book is expected to fetch upward of $100,000."
"Paradise, purgatory, and hell (frozen over) make a dramatic appearance in a major new exhibition, ‘Dante Rediscovered: From Blake To Rodin’, at the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere."
"Southeast Missouri State University's manuscript by prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams is no longer unpublished. "
"This summer the respected international literary journal The Paris Review included a copy of the poem, 'About a Little Girl,' in its summer edition. "
"New Haven, Conn. — Yale University will host an international conference on October 20 and 21 celebrating the life and work of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. "
"The conference, “Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai’s World,” is free and open to the public."
"An exhibition of books authored by Charles Darwin will be on display in the Lenhardt Library located in the Regenstein Center at the Chicago Botanic Garden through Sunday, October 28, 2007. This exhibit presents the background for his book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection—one of the most influential books in the field of natural sciences."
"Janet Frame's niece fears that more original manuscripts, as well as private letters, by the award-winning author could be put on the open market after a rare script was sold for $13,000. "
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"A Dutch foundation received a 17th century Dutch translation of 'Antiquities of the Jews' by first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus."
"'Antiquities of the Jews' covers Jewish history through the Roman conquest of ancient Judea, when the Diaspora began."
"There are fears an original Janet Frame manuscript could end up in private hands, out of public view, when it is auctioned in Wellington this week."
"A manual Royal typewriter that once belonged to Ernest Hemingway, made around 1940 and still in its well-worn leather carrying case, sold for $2,750 at a multi-estate sale held June 24th by Four Seasons Auction Gallery in Atlanta."
"The 1897 copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula was found during a house clearance in Great Smeaton, near Northallerton."
"Three decades after her death in 1976, Dame Agatha Christie remains one of the best-selling fiction writers of all time. It is estimated that, beginning with the publication in 1920 of her first mystery novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, over 2 billion copies of her books, printed in dozens of languages, have been sold around the globe."
" New Delhi - The scheduled auction of a letter written by Mahatma Gandhi, believed to be his last before his assassination, has ruffled feathers in the Indian government, media reports said Wednesday."
"The FBI has recovered the long-lost manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Good Earth," after the daughter of one of the author's former secretaries tried to put it up for auction."
"The 400-page manuscript turned up earlier this month at the Samuel T. Freeman & Co. auction house in Philadelphia..."
"Leather books and handwritten letters by Rudyard Kipling filled the glass cases at Yale's rare books library. Richards, 61, a real estate lawyer in New York, had spent the last quarter of his life hunting down all things Kipling. Now, for his 40th reunion, he was giving it all to Yale: first-edition copies of "The Just So Stories" plus tea sets, posters and cigar boxes decorated with the British writer's face."
"Thirty-eight items of documentary heritage of exceptional value have just been added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, bringing the total number of inscriptions since 1997 to 158."
"A student is expected to make up to £15,000 when he sells his rare first-edition copy of the first Harry Potter book to help pay his way through university. "
"Only 500 copies were made in first run."
"Significant portions of the working manuscripts and notebooks of four well-known books, including "The Prophet," by Kahlil Gibran have been donated to the Princeton University Library."
"Four items that were given as presents by literary giant Ernest Hemingway to George T. Northen – the grandson of former Georgia Governor William J. Northen, who served two terms, from 1890-1894 – will be sold at auction on Sunday, June 24..."
"Entering his eighth decade, Larry McMurtry has under his belt 29 novels, five collections of essays, several screenplays, and, recently, a few short histories, not to mention his vast journalistic output. Raised up in a ranching family near Archer City, Texas, he has become one of his generation's more prolific men of letters."
"For 50 years, the old box of documents collected dust in the West Hollywood garage of Twyla Martin. She knew it had something to do with author John Steinbeck, with whom Martin's husband worked briefly in the 1950s."
"There was no cake. There were no candles. There was just a bunch of middle-aged men standing around in the back room of the library at the New York Botanical Garden yesterday, talking about the birthday boy and sex."
"COLUMBIA, S.C. --The University of South Carolina got a $3 million endowment from the estate of the late Edward S. Hallman to buy more materials and maintain its Ernest Hemingway collection."
"The Newberry Library and the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies have acquired a 15th Century printing of a work by Nicolaus of Lyra."
"Charles Sorenson didn’t find '50 Years in the Saddle' by accident last month. He’d gone to Buffalo in search of the book — a memoir Ricketts had written about his life as a rancher in northeastern Wyoming."
"His wife had spotted the book in a advertisement announcing the auction. He’d planned to buy the book for his brother as a present."
"KARACHI: Sindh Archives has received all 72 volumes of Syed Shamsul Hasan’s historic collection from the National Documentation Center (NDC), Islamabad while documents regarding the Sindh Governor’s Report between the period of 1937 to 1947 has also begun in consignments."
"NORTH HILLS - Writer Joel Eisenberg was poring over some crumbling manuscripts at 3 a.m. when the bombshell hit. "
"He realized the handwritten scrawl swimming before his eyes was none other than the missing draft of "Sweet Thursday" by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. "
"McAleese made these remarks at Emory on Monday after a private tour of the Manuscript, Archive and Rare Book Library (MARBL), which the University says houses the finest collection of Irish literature outside of Ireland."
"The MARBL collection includes the papers of Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney, and poets Thomas Kinsella and Medbh McGuckian. The library also holds the literary archive of Irish novelist Edna O'Brien."
"The college's H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies recently purchased a copy of 'Congrégation sur l’élection éternelle de Dieu.'"
"The book was printed in Geneva in 1562 by Vincent Bres and only five libraries in Europe are known to own it and none in the United States."
"ATLANTA --After two decades of waiting, Emory University is unsealing its collection of hundreds of letters between author Flannery O'Connor and one of her longtime friends."
"The Wordsworth Trust has acquired a rare manuscript by William Wordsworth showing how the celebrated Romantic poet made continuous amendments to his work. "
"The first edition copy of the poem The White Doe of Rylstone is covered in revisions in the handwriting of the poet’s wife Mary Wordsworth. "
"A rare manuscript of one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final Sherlock Holmes stories is expected to fetch a £250,000 at auction. "
"The handwritten copy of The Adventure of the Three Gables goes under the hammer at Sotheby's New York in June."
"Readers will appreciate that for his new novel The Book of Air and Shadows, marine biologist and former Carter speechwriter (?!) Michael Gruber chose a doozy of a McGuffin: the discovery of some 16th century papers that could just point to the existence of a completely unknown play by one William Shakespeare, the exclusive publishing rights to which would be worth many millions of dollars. Not a bad choice, as this device allows the author both a perfect gambit for indulging in both the imparting of some generalized Shakespeare scholarship as well as shootouts with Russian mobsters. "
"The obvious contemporary precedent for the resurgence of the small magazine is Dave Eggers's McSweeney's which in the Nineties became a beacon for writers weary of the limited possibilities of the mainstream press."
"A letter by Goethe is just one of approximately 100 literary letters housed in a Mason City Public Library collection established during the 1950s by family of Gen. Hanford MacNider."
"The collection represents a Who’s Who of American and European authors, a mix of letters and autographs of the famous and not so famous."
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"The first-prize winner receives the 2007 James Joyce "Nancy Duffy Award," a rare book donated by Geoffrey Hoefer, of New York City, in memory of Holocaust survivor Rosi Moses-Scheuer."
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"At number 26, Piazza di Spagna, at the base of the Spanish Steps, in a little red house also known as Casina Rossa, Keats spent the last months of his life. The house in Rome was acquired by the Keats and Shelley Association in 1907 and has been converted into a museum dedicated to the poets of the Romantic Age."
"'By 2021, I predict, you will be able to buy the same RAM stick with 32 terabytes,' said Michael Hart, founder of the nonprofit Project. "That means every word in every major library in the world - you could carry them all around your neck or on your key chain.'"
"GUWAHATI, Feb 25 – The National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Government of India, has proclaimed two valuable and rare manuscripts, Chitra Bhagabata and Ratnamala Vyakaran, written on sanchipat and preserved at the KK Handiqui Library of Gauhati University as ‘Vijnananidhi: Manuscript Treasure of India’. Manuscripts declared as Vijnananidhi are selected for their outstanding value to the whole of humanity and for their contribution to Indian life or to the development of Indian thought or the preservation of its culture. The Mission seeks to pay homage to the landmarks in Indian intellectual history by identifying manuscripts with unique heritage value and designating these as ‘Vijnananidhi.’ "
'The first editions of classic children’s books are often very collectible,' said Scott Laming, spokesperson for AbeBooks.com. 'They usually end up battered and beaten so any first editions that survive in good condition become highly sought-after by collectors. The Cat in the Hat is a prime example of how a book’s value can soar because good copies are scare.'
"As the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) celebrates its fourth anniversary, Uttar Pradesh too has become a part of it. Some of the rare manuscripts in the state, which were so far preserved in the private and institutional collections, are being conserved for a national database now. "
"Administrators and faculty officially welcomed award-winning author Salman Rushdie to campus on Tuesday at a press conference and reception where the writer practically bared all. "
"It was the first time the author, who will serve a five-year appointment at Emory, saw his works archived, and the experience, Rushdie said, 'was a bit like undressing in public.'"
"More than 60 works of the best bookbinders and book artists in America will be on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts as part of the Guild of Book Workers' 100th Anniversary Exhibition starting today. "
"The exhibit, co-hosted by the Book Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library and the UMFA, is touring across the country and features three unique books by Utah artists."
"Namgyal Institute: A must visit in Gangtok, the Namgyal Institute was built in the year 1958 to promote research in Mahayan Buddhism and Tibetan language and traditions. Built in a traditional style, this institute has world's largest collections of books and rare manuscripts on Mahayan Buddhism, in addition to the works of art and silk embroidered Tankhas."
"GREENSBORO, NC – Greensboro book collector Richard Levy has loaned his Paul Laurence Dunbar collection to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro for an exhibit in Jackson Library during Black History Month."
"Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African-American poets to garner national critical acclaim. The exhibit – “‘Sunshine and Shadow:’ Poems and Fiction of Paul Laurence Dunbar from the Collection of Richard Levy” – will be on display Feb. 1-March 7 in the Hodges Reading Room."
"Montana plays an unlikely starring role in a major literary discovery that promises to electrify 19th-century Romantic scholars around the globe and profoundly change the course of Romantic literature studies."
"At the heart of the excitement is James McKusick, dean of the University of Montana's Davidson Honors College, who after a 36-year hunt has helped sleuth out what is believed to be a previously unknown work of the great British poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge."
"At the heart of the excitement is James McKusick, dean of the University of Montana's Davidson Honors College, who after a 36-year hunt has helped sleuth out what is believed to be a previously unknown work of the great British poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Even more tantalizing, the work is a substantial partial verse translation of Goethe's landmark tragic play, “Faust,” written in 1808."
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"ATLANTA -- Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library is now home to love letters between a former British poet laureate and his mistress."
"The letters have been added to the Ted Hughes literary archive at Emory, which the library acquired in 1997."
"The Dublin Writers' Museum is one of the legacies from the Irish capital's year as European City of Culture in 1991. Inside the splendidly restored Georgian townhouse are books, letters, photographs, and memorabilia that bring Dublin's literary heroes to life. At times, it's a bit like exploring the Irish national attic. "
"The pages of a medieval prayer text also contain words of ancient Greek engineer Archimedes. It takes high-tech imaging to read between the lines. "
"The National Library of Ireland has acquired a huge collection of printed and ephemeral items by and about literary giant Samuel Beckett. "
"The 800 strong collection was built by the late book collector and Enitharmon Press founder Alan Clodd and contains more than 200 items personally signed by the writer."
" A rare copy of Danish philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard's famed book 'Either/Or' was auctioned off Tuesday for 170,000 kroner (euro22,800; US$30,200) to a European book collector, an auction house said."
"Fine Gael is examining the sale of a manuscript of James Joyce’s novel, Finnegan’s Wake, to the National Library by a former consultant to the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism."
"Tikari (Bihar), Dec 15: A rare manuscript inscribed in golden letters by the 18th century Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, has been stolen from a school in Bihar. "
"The manuscript titled 'Gulistan' (Nation) in Persian language was in the custody of the Tikari Raj High School, which is about 35 kilometers from Gaya."
"The news from Harvard Square had rare-book collectors aflutter: Two manuscripts by the renowned Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges had vanished and were presumed stolen in an international literary heist worth $950,000."
"Just days after a guitar owned by George Harrison fetched a debutante's ransom, a lyric sheet for "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," hand-written by Paul McCartney brought in $192 thousand..."
"Part of the Austro-Hungarian empire until after World War I ... the city center brims with century-old Habsburg-era buildings..."
"East of the square is the unlikely twofer Teleki Museum/ Bolyai Library. The library includes numerous rare books, including one by Benjamin Franklin."
"BALTIMORE — An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece as seen through the eyes of Hyperides, an important Athenian orator and politician from the fourth century B.C. "
"Edward Curtis was probably slightly mad when he began photographing the 'vanishing Indians' of North America in 1906." ...
" Today, each of the 20 volumes from the original sets sells for between $7,500 and $23,000, so a complete set is worth between $150,000 and $450,000."
"Pyle in 1903 was commissioned by the Bibliophile Society of Boston to illustrate 'The Bibliomaniac; or, Book-Madness,' by Thomas Frognall Dibden. 'Richard de Bury' was one of five paintings Pyle produced for the book."
"Cunningham moved to Dublin 27 years ago, and opened the first Dublin incarnation of Cathach in Market Arcade. But 18 years ago Cunningham moved his shop a few blocks to its current location -- just down the street from Davy Byrne's pub, where Leopold Bloom had a glass of burgundy and a gorgonzola sandwich in 'Ulysses.'"
"A book archived for decades in the cluttered basement of the Metuchen Library has been identified as one of the most important science reference volumes of William Shakespeare's time -- a book the Bard of Avon himself may have consulted for his plays."
"'It's an astonishing discovery,' said Karen Reeds, a science and medical historian."
"On Tuesday, Nov. 7, award-winning mystery writer Laura Lippman will be at Bryn Mawr to talk about her fiction, her reporter-turned-detective Tess Monaghan, and her own work as a reporter in Baltimore before she began writing novels. Lippman's talk, to take place in Carpenter 21 at 4:30 p.m., is associated with the exhibition Pointing Fingers: Women, Sin, Crime, and Guilt, which is currently on view in the Rare Book Room in Canaday Library."
"Sussex-based Rediscovery Books (http://www.rediscoverybooks.com) is publishing high quality reproductions of rare books from the library of the Royal Geographical Society. The joint project will breathe new life into spectacular accounts of the expeditions and campaigns that forged the British Empire. "
"A rare letter from Catherine of Aragon, beseeching the Holy Roman Emperor to convince Pope Clement VII to uphold her marriage to Henry VIII is expected to bring up to $150,000 when it is sold at auction in America."
"The letter, dated February 8 1534, is part of 31 manuscripts from a private collection, which will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York, on December 11. "
"Celebrated contemporary author, Salman Rushdie, will join the faculty of Emory University as Distinguished Writer in Residence and place his archive at Emory's Woodruff Library. "
"This is Rushdie's first extended relationship with a university. His position as Distinguished Writer in Residence is a five-year appointment in the English Department, beginning in the spring of 2007. During each of these five years he will be teaching for at least four weeks, lead a graduate seminar, participate in undergraduate classes, advise students, engage in symposia and deliver a public lecture. "
"Calligraphers are a genteel crowd, so the bidding war that developed over one of Sister Grace Taylor’s now-out-of-print and collectible calligraphy books was very polite last weekend. "
"Nonetheless, Sister Josephine Schultz and Patty Sackinger of Mount Angel were pleased to see their faith in Taylor’s work well supported years after her death. "
"DE PERE — A rare-book exhibit of "Collecting the Confessions: Editions of St. Augustine's Confessions" will celebrate the opening of the new Center for Norbertine Studies from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday in the Godschalx Gallery in the Carol and Robert Bush Art Center at St. Norbert College. The event is free and open to the public. "
"A University of Virginia graduate student, poking through a box of uncatalogued material at the school’s library, has found an unpublished poem by Robert Frost."
"The poem, 'War Thoughts at Home,' was handwritten by Frost in a copy of 'North of Boston,' his second collection of poetry. The poem is signed by Frost and dated January 1918."
"By reopening the museum, Brian McCartin, president of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, hopes to re-energize the society and national interest in Paine, the author of "Common Sense," an influential 1776 pamphlet that argued for the Colonies' independence from England."
"George Ramsden collected the 2,600-volume personal library of Edith Wharton over a period of 20 years but agreed to sell it the author's estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, for £1.5m last January.
The rare book dealer, of Settrington – who was named honorary curator of the collection – spent a week arranging the books on the shelves of her former home before meeting Laura Bush, the First Lady of the United States of America, at a special ceremony."