Fellows' Tea Series

Each Monday afternoon at 4 pm during the semester, you are cordially invited to tea with the Beinecke Library visiting research fellows. Each week will include an object talk on an item in the current exhibition.

Mondays at 4 pm
January 28 – May 6, 2013
Beinecke Library mezzanine

Please join us for thrilling encounters with the Beinecke collections!

Spring speakers and topics

January 28     Kathryn James, Beinecke Library
By Hand, the current exhibition

February 4      Lanny Hammer, Yale Department of English
James Merrill’s Ouija board


February 11    Re-scheduled due to snow

February 18    Anders Winroth, Yale Department of History, and Ray Clemens, Beinecke Library
The Vinland Map and Voynich Manuscript

February 25    NO FELLOWS' TEA

March 4      Jessica Brantley, Yale Department of English
Rothschild canticles and ivory writing tablets


March 11     Tom Bolze, Beinecke Library, and Ellen Ellickson, Beinecke Library
Marjorie Wynne


March 18    Kevin Repp, Beinecke Library
The Milles Pensees of Henri Chopin

March 25       Tim Young, Beinecke Library
Monroe Wheeler and Glenway Wescott datebooks


April 1           Richard Deming, Yale Department of English
Thoreau’s manuscript of Walden


April 8           Larry Manley, Yale Department of English
William Henry Ireland album of Shakespeare forgeries


April 15         Susan Howe, 2011 winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry
Sarah Pierpont Edwards’ wedding dress


April 22         Nancy Kuhl, Beinecke Library
Ernest "Hem" Hemingway's postcards


April 29         George Miles, Beinecke Library
Lewis and Clark Map


May 6           Kathryn James, Beinecke Library

May 13         Michael Warner, Chair and Seymour H. Knox Professor, Yale Department of English
Sermon notes by Jonathan Edwards