“Immediately upon the arrival of the tea-ships in the harbor of Boston, the first step taken was to request the consignees to refuse the commission. The inhabitants warmly remonstrated against the teas being landed in any of their ports, and urged the return of the...
“…Letters, the Invention of which was a thing of so great Art and exquisiteness, that…doth from hence inferr the divinity and spirituality of the humane soul, and that it must needs be of a farr more excellent and abstracted Essence that mere Matter or Body…”...
Students came to level two of the library during National Library Week to share their gratitude for the staff, spaces, and services that libraries provide. Many students, like those pictured below, were grateful for the many quiet study spaces and the comfy "womb chairs". Others...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="241"] Miscellanies Daines Barrington (1727-1800) London: Printed by J. Nichols, sold by B. White, 1781 First edition AC7 B34 1781[/caption] “What we saw of the country leaves us no doubt of its fertility, and that it is capable of producing all the plants...
“Le’sprit qu’on veut avoir gâte celuis qu’on a.” DICTIONNAIRE DES PROVERBES FRANCAIS Pierre de La Mésangère (1761-1831) Paris: Treuttel & Wurz: 1823 Third edition PN6451 L3 1823 Published anonymously in its first and second editions, Pierre de La Mésangère’s Dictionnaire is still in print today. Professor of literature and philosophy at...
“It was nice being able to get lost in someone’s work and to look at books in a way that I never have before. Being able to actually hold and handle the books teaches us many things. ” Early in the cold, wet month of February,...
“What small assurance there is in mens affaires, and how subject unto change even those things are wherein we for the most part repose our greatest felicitie and blisse, (beside that the whole course of mans fraile life, by many notable examples well declareth) nothing...
Hello readers! TJ Ferrill here, with the Marriott Library’s Creative Spaces unit. We continue to see new releases in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality landscapes, with further developments on the horizon. In my previous post, I went over some details about what we’re planning with...
“…do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou has not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!” — John Keats from Ode on a Grecian Urn In Memoriam — Kathleen Thompson Kathleen Thompson of Michael R. Thompson Rare Books worked for several Los Angeles antiquarian booksellers,...
Recently the library’s Special Collections (Manuscripts Dept) received a donation of vintage postcards from Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Books. Contained in the collection is a large number of postcards related to the life and career of the actress Maude Adams, the first woman in...
