THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM RECEIVES MAJOR GRANT FROM THE LEON LEVY FOUNDATION FOR CATALOGING OF LITERARY AND HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS

Press release date: 
Monday, August 13, 2007

The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has received a grant of $450,000 from the Leon Levy Foundation for a three-year project to upgrade catalog records for its renowned collection of literary and historical manuscripts.

The Morgan’s holdings range from love letters of Voltaire to diaries of Henry David Thoreau to lyric sheets by Bob Dylan. This grant will facilitate greater access to these documents via the institution’s online public catalog, CORSAIR.

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