Latest Posts Under: 2021

Spotlight on New Acquisitions: Two early works by a prominent American woman printer

July 28, 2021 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Spotlight on New Acquisitions: Conrad Gessner’s Vogelbuch (“Bird-Book”) of 1582

April 27, 2021 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

People Behind the Poetry: American Poets’ Martha Linsley Spencer and Edwin Arlington Robinson Reveal Their Prosaic Lives

February 5, 2021 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Jessica Sullivan (Simmons University, Intern at the Watkinson Library, Fall 2020). Preserved among the numerous manuscript collections at the Watkinson Library, the Martha Linsley Spencer papers and Edwin Arlington Robinson papers offer a personal look into the lives of two 20th century American poets. Both sets of papers contain correspondence, proofs, and newspaper clippings …

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NEW ACQUISITION: From the ANNALS of Trinity College and SLAVERY

February 1, 2021 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

JOHN BAPTISTA ASHE (class of 1830) was one of “quite a few North Carolinians [who] attended Trinity—in that generation”1 The senior class of undergraduates at Washington (now Trinity) College in 1829-1830 included four North Carolinians, one of whom was John Baptista Ashe, later a lawyer and a member of the United States Congress representing the …

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