Walt Whitman’s corrected reprint of O Captain, My Captain!
(Source: bookshavepores)
Manuscripts, letters, and general memorabilia from our favourite literary (and occasionally historical) figures. Collected by Angela.
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June 11, 2012
June 10, 2012
Notes on Anatomy, Geometry and the Structure of the Eye, for Perspective Lectures (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1808-9
Greenwich Sketchbook Series, Ink on paper
(Source: mondonoir, via an-itinerant-poet)
June 9, 2012
Burger recipes according to Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. They have both always seemed to me like funny, drunk, entertaining friends to have. If I had 3 wishes, I would totally use one of them to hang out at a summer BBQ with the Rat Pack.
(via @LettersOfNote)
June 8, 2012
A tobacco order in Rossini’s hand, sent to a supplier in New Orleans. “We would like twelve pounds,” he writes at bottom, “and no fewer than six.”
June 7, 2012
One of the books I digitized, optimized, and color-corrected in April is now live in the University of Florida Digital Collections.
M. de Marillac Letterbook (1699-1702)- “The squadron the author was part of was almost totally destroyed 4 days after the date of the final letter by a British force under the command of Rooke and the Duke of Ormonde.”
Notably, quality control removed the four or five blank leaves that I photographed at the end of the book (possibly neglected because of the aforementioned attack). Same book, previous post.
(Source: krissywilson)
June 6, 2012
Philip K. Dick’s notes for Exegesis (from this NYTimes series)
Speaking of handwriting, holy moly, that fella could CLUSTER! (Anybody else read that Janet Burroway book in creativity writing class?)
Thanks, Peter!
June 5, 2012
June 4, 2012
Robert Louis Stevenson’s university notebook, 1869
National Library of ScotlandStevenson’s vivid imagination impinged on everything he did. This page is from a notebook from his civil engineering lectures at Edinburgh University in 1869. It is covered with doodles which reveal an active mind and an acute visual sense.
June 3, 2012
Marie Curie’s letter to Dr. Abbe describing the piezo-electric apparatus (Source: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
June 2, 2012
![mondonoir:
The Artists, Death in Reverse
Some index for clerical men and clerical women. Some shadows. Some thin green. Some index for men and women of the clergy. A patient throbbing meant for them. Pain: found. Loneliness: to a wound and an ear. Starlight odd, much else. Death in reverse, minimized, backwards.
Notes and fragments by Michael Burkard
[via This Long Century]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3q1vcfTOf1rr10yho1_1280.jpg)
The Artists, Death in Reverse
Some index for clerical men and clerical women.
Some shadows. Some thin green.
Some index for men and women of the clergy.
A patient throbbing meant for them.
Pain: found. Loneliness: to a wound and an ear.
Starlight odd, much else. Death
in reverse, minimized, backwards.Notes and fragments by Michael Burkard
[via This Long Century]
