The Universal Penman
Submitted by John Bidwell on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 9:33am
George Bickham (1684?-1758?). The Universal Penman. London: Robert Sayer, [ca. 1760]. Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2012.
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Vente après décès
Submitted by John Bidwell on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 10:51am
Vente après décès, de la bibliothèque de nos égorgeurs. [Rouen: s.n., 1795]. Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2011.
Virgil (Romance)
Submitted by John Bidwell on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 11:05am
Virgil (Romance). French (Middle French). La Vie, les ditz, et merveilles de Vergille, quil fist luy estant en Romme, nouvellement imprimee. Lyon: Heirs of Barnabé Chaussard [ca. 1535]. Purchased on the Lathrop Harper Fund, 2011.
Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman takes her place in the Morgan Library
Submitted by Christine Nelson on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 1:53pm
On March 12, 2018, Amanda Gorman, the twenty-year-old Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, visited the Morgan to place a manuscript of her poem “In This Place (An American Lyric)” in a vitrine in the Morgan’s majestic East Room alongside the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Carson McCullers, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Peter Paul Rubens.