NYPL Menu Collection.
Baryshnikov just donated his archives to the New York Public Library.
“Starting today, the New York Public Library will pardon some 140,000 kids who’ve been barred from borrowing books due to late fines that clock in at over $15. “Kids might be afraid or ashamed because they are delinquent with the library,” said NYPL spokesman Jack Martin.”
I totally avoid the library when I have fines.
Harriet Shelley’s suicide note. She drowned herself two years after Percey ran away with a then 16-year-old Mary Goodwin (later Shelley).
Transcript: http://shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/harriet-shelleys-suicide-letter#Transcript
Maybe I should be an archivist.
(via New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers - NYTimes.com)
My friend, Susan Marlsbury, worked on this collection. She and it are all kinds of awesome.
NYPL is awesome. I miss it so much.
At NYPL’s 100th birthday exhibit: Charles Dickens letter opener made out of his cat’s paw and the cane Virginia Woolf used before she killed herself. (via NYPL Celebrates 100 Years With Literary Artifacts Exhibit - DNAinfo.com)
