- The Lilly Library has acquired the marvelous dictionary collection of Madeline Kripke.
- Paul Needham's Lyell Lectures continue, and are viewable here as they are delivered.
- The ABAA's Diversity Initiative is hosting a panel, "Everyone is Welcome Here: Building Better Relationships in Book Communities" on 26 October.
- Over at Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, "Otto Ege's Armenian Lectionary Dated '1121.'"
- Heather Wolfe will be the Munby Fellow at Cambridge University Libraries for 2021–22, working on a project titled "Decoding early modern writing paper."
- On the Swann Galleries blog, Devon Eastland writes about Harvard librarian George Parker Winship.
- Carla Cevasco writes for the Collation on "Picturing Children's Food in Early Modern Europe."
- There is still time to register for the APHA conference on 22–23 October, "Impresos: Printing Across Latin American and Caribbean Cultures."
- The bat signal has gone out for a number of Mark Twain legal documents which are believed to have been acquired by the Detroit Public Library in 1966 but were not found when a researcher looked for them in 2010. Barbara Schmidt has a feature on this over on Twain Quotes.
- A First Circuit panel has ruled that a 1780 Alexander Hamilton letter to Lafayette is the clear property of the Massachusetts Archives, and the letter has now been returned. It was stolen by employee Harold Perry sometime between 1938 and 1946 and later sold. Read the full decision here.
Upcoming Auctions
- The Luzzatto High Holidays Mahzor: A Magnificent Ashkenazic Prayer Book at Sotheby's New York on 19 October.
- Travel including a single owner collection of books on mountaineering at Bloomsbury Auctions (Dreweatts) ends on 20 October.
- A third selection of 16th and 17th English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library at Forum Auctions on 21 October.
- Fine Literature – Bukowski, Beats & the Counterculture at PBA Galleries on 21 October.
- Literature, Social Activism, Counterculture at Second Story Books on 23 October.
