Mondays at Beinecke | November 11, 2013

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511
(Location is wheelchair accessible)
Each Monday at 4:00 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, "The Power of Pictures," curated by George Miles, Beinecke Curator for Western Americana.
Please join us for thrilling encounters with the Beinecke collections!
Fall 2013 Schedule
September 16 Kathryn James, Curator for Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection, Beinecke Library
A recently acquired manuscript reader's copy, ca. 1613, of John Donne's Satires
September 23 Heather Dean, Archivist, Beinecke Library
"In the Mind's Eye: Beinecke Architecture Imagined," an exhibition on view through December 31, 2013
September 30 Kevin Repp, Curator for Modern European Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
An introduction to the Beinecke Library graduate and visiting research fellowship program
October 7 George Miles, Curator for Western Americana, Beinecke Library
"The Power of Pictures," an introduction to the new Beinecke exhibition
October 14 Janice Carlisle, Professor of English, Department of English
An original drawing for Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, with his comments and corrections
October 21 Mia Reinoso Genoni, John B. Madden Dean of Berkeley College; Lecturer in History of Art and Special Programs in the Humanities
An early 16th-century copy of Francisco Giorgio di Martini's architectural manuscript, Trattati di archittetura ingegneria e arte militare.
October 28 Kevin Repp, Curator for Modern European Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
November 4 Timothy Young, Curator for Modern Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
Sodoms zonde und straffe [Sodom's Sin and Punishment], from early 18th-c. Amsterdam
November 11 Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies & Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Personal photography - the Romanov family album, the poet H.D.'s scrapbook, and J.M. Barrie's The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island
November 18 John Faragher, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History & American Studies and Director of the Howard R. Lamar Center
Western expeditionary art - works by Alfred Jacob Miller and Carl Bodmer
November 25 Ray Clemens, Curator for Early Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
Portolan charts of the Mediterranean from sixteenth-century Portugal
December 2 Nancy Kuhl, Curator for Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library
December 9 Susan Gibbons, University Librarian, Yale University Library
The city of God and the city of Man, an illuminated copy of Augustine's De Civitate Dei, Paris, ca. 1415
December 16
Spring 2013 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
Contact
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
121 Wall Street | New Haven, CT 06511
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Tel: (203) 432-2977 Fax: (203) 432-4047
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email: beinecke.library@yale.edu
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Hours
Monday 10 am - 7 pm
Tuesday-Thursday 9 am - 7 pm
Friday 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday (Exhibitions only) 12 pm - 5 pm
Sunday (Exhibitions only) 12 pm - 4 pm