SPOTLIGHT ON COLLECTIONS: Thoreau’s Notes on the Shipwreck of Margaret Fuller
Date and Time
June 6, 2017
03:00PM - 04:30PM EDT
Location
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard
SPOTLIGHT ON COLLECTIONS
Thoreau’s Notes on the Shipwreck of Margaret Fuller
Tuesday., June. 6., 2017
3.:00–4.:30 .pm
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard
Thoreau’s manuscript notes on his exhaustive but fruitless search for the bodies and belongings of war correspondent and feminist Margaret Fuller Ossoli and her family, shipwrecked off Fire Island on July 19, 1850.
Leslie Morris, Karen Walter, and Pulitzer Prize winner Megan Marshall will present behind-the-scenes perspectives on the acquisition process, the conservation treatment, and the manuscript’s value for research and teaching.
Presentations will begin promptly at 3:00 pm, to be followed by a light reception and opportunity to view the manuscript on exhibition.
Leslie A. Morris is Curator of ModernBooks and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University, a position she has held since 2005; she was Curator of Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library from 1992-2005. She is responsible for acquisition of research materials in all languages and subjects dating from 1800 to the present, and she curates a collection that includes the papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, the Alcott family, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, Herman Melville, John Updike, and Gore Vidal (to name a few of the American collections) and many others. Her personal research centers on the history of bookselling and book collecting in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Karen Walter is a Senior Paper Conservation Technician at the Weissman Preservation Center, where she has worked for close to twenty years. Her primary responsibility is for the care, housing, and conservation treatment of paper-based materials in the rare collections of Harvard Library. Examples of past treatments include the manuscripts of John Keats, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson. She is also a practicing artist, creating works of art on paper which she exhibits regularly.
Megan Marshallis Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor, Emerson College, as well as a graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe ('77) and a Radcliffe Institute Fellow ('07). She is the author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and Memoir and the 2014 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, and two other biographies of New England women. For the occasion of Margaret Fuller's bicentennial in 2010, Marshall curated an exhibition of rare books, manuscripts, and artwork at the Massachusetts Historical Society titled “A More Interior Revolution: Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller, and the Women of the American Renaissance.”
Sponsored by Harvard Library Preservation Services and Houghton Library.
Thoreau’s Notes on the Shipwreck of Margaret Fuller
Tuesday., June. 6., 2017
3.:00–4.:30 .pm
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard
Thoreau’s manuscript notes on his exhaustive but fruitless search for the bodies and belongings of war correspondent and feminist Margaret Fuller Ossoli and her family, shipwrecked off Fire Island on July 19, 1850.
Leslie Morris, Karen Walter, and Pulitzer Prize winner Megan Marshall will present behind-the-scenes perspectives on the acquisition process, the conservation treatment, and the manuscript’s value for research and teaching.
Presentations will begin promptly at 3:00 pm, to be followed by a light reception and opportunity to view the manuscript on exhibition.
Leslie A. Morris is Curator of ModernBooks and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University, a position she has held since 2005; she was Curator of Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library from 1992-2005. She is responsible for acquisition of research materials in all languages and subjects dating from 1800 to the present, and she curates a collection that includes the papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, the Alcott family, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, Herman Melville, John Updike, and Gore Vidal (to name a few of the American collections) and many others. Her personal research centers on the history of bookselling and book collecting in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Karen Walter is a Senior Paper Conservation Technician at the Weissman Preservation Center, where she has worked for close to twenty years. Her primary responsibility is for the care, housing, and conservation treatment of paper-based materials in the rare collections of Harvard Library. Examples of past treatments include the manuscripts of John Keats, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson. She is also a practicing artist, creating works of art on paper which she exhibits regularly.
Megan Marshallis Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor, Emerson College, as well as a graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe ('77) and a Radcliffe Institute Fellow ('07). She is the author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and Memoir and the 2014 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, and two other biographies of New England women. For the occasion of Margaret Fuller's bicentennial in 2010, Marshall curated an exhibition of rare books, manuscripts, and artwork at the Massachusetts Historical Society titled “A More Interior Revolution: Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller, and the Women of the American Renaissance.”
Sponsored by Harvard Library Preservation Services and Houghton Library.