cnlibrarian.bsky.social
Special collections librarian / curator / archivist. Longtime Morgan Library manuscripts curator, Thoreauvian, Brontëite, Belle da Costa Greene devotee. Studying Shaker book culture.
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Posing before “The Triumph of Avarice” nice 😀
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Welcome to Bluesky, @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social!
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Thoreauvian
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You’ll never top this one!
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I commuted Philly to NY thrice weekly for 18 years 😩 - mostly on a BUS - you can do it! (though I wish I hadn’t…)
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Oh my - fantastic!
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I’m glad you enjoy the portrait gallery - I loved working on it - especially unearthing all the newspaper appearances!
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Thanks for putting this together - would love to be added!
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Too late…
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Morgan had many books in storage at the Lenox Library as construction proceeded on his new library. Greene was engaged to help get them ready to be moved.
(Letter first cited by Daria Rose Foner and Colin B. Bailey in our 2023 book "J. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Building the Bookman's Paradise.")