"An ongoing project to collect the best and brightest notebooks in the world." So much more interesting than I was expecting. I especially liked the above "Cultural Revolution Notebook" from China.
New Acquisitions
Harvard's Houghton Library has a new blog highlighting recent acquisitions to their Modern Books and Manuscripts division. Each post focuses on one item, with images as well as often-fascinating background and history. Personal faves so far include an Emily Dickinson manuscript, a telegram from the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, and a sort of 19th century version of The Dating Game:The set, which arrived in its original box, includes forty hand-colored cards depicting men and women. The twenty cards picturing men each contain a member of a different profession and a rhyming, nineteenth-century, pick-up line. The cards featuring women contain various polite...