Old Friends in a New Dress; or, Familiar Fables in Verse (New Haven, CT and Charleston, S.C. : Sidney's Press, 1823) A versified retelling of moral stories, two of which are shown here in full. This copy bound with a lovely remnant of wallpaper.

November 26, 2012

Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, fable, story, verse

"It lies in the nature of man to leave records of his life and his thoughts."

Pages from "English for All, Fortnightly for Germans", a publication issued to German prisoners of war in England, intended to teach language skills, 1946 - 1948.

November 15, 2012

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, English, German, language, pow, prisoner, teaching, war

New From Beinecke Collections

All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished the books she was contracted to write—a painful failure and yet a kind of achievement.

November 10, 2012

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature

New from Beinecke's Collections

From the Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers in the Yale Collection of American Literature (YCAL MSS 196 & YCAL MSS 197)

November 10, 2012

Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature

Navigating NYC in Children’s Books

"Navigating NYC in Children’s Books: A Whistle-Stop Tour" A lecture by Pádraic Whyte, School of English, Trinity College Dublin Thursday, November 8, 2012 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511 (Location is wheelchair accessible) Free and Open to the Public

November 6, 2012

Beinecke Library, children, city, lecture, literature, new, padraic, whyte, york