“Bad day again…” Henry James’s date book.
Manuscripts, letters, and general memorabilia from our favourite literary (and occasionally historical) figures. Collected by Angela.
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February 5, 2013
February 2, 2013
Manuscript fragment of James Joyce’s Ulysses, via The Morgan Library & Museum. Click the link to zoom in on the manuscript so you can read all of Joyce’s squiggles.
January 30, 2013
January 28, 2013
Names that Kubrick was brainstorming for what would eventually be Dr. Strangelove
January 27, 2013
Undated children’s verse cards from Sara Coleridge collection. These verses—on such topics as English history, Latin vocabulary, and animals—formed the foundation for Coleridge’s “Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children and Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme,” published in 1834.
Read the full article “Sara Coleridge’s Pretty Lessons in Verse: Nineteenth- Century Flash Cards” on the Ransom Center’s blog, Cultural Compass.
January 26, 2013
This marked-up copy is Shelly’s own first edition of Queen Mab as annotated by himself. The original manuscript is held in the Ashley Library in the British Library.
January 22, 2013
January 21, 2013
Emily Dickinson wrote on small pieces of paper, whatever was on hand. [see also: The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope-Poems by Jen Bervin & Marta Werner]
(Source: mythologyofblue)
January 20, 2013
The Moonrise Kingdom script, complete with drawings, notes and set designs.
(via crookedindifference)
January 19, 2013
Count on Isaac Asimov to have the best business card title ever: ”natural resource”
My business card says “scientist/purveyor of knowledge”, no joke.
