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The Writers exhibition, on display in the Schatten Gallery until November, features photographer Nancy Crampton’s pictures of authors,poets, novelists, journalists and other writers. A small selection of MARBL materials, chosen by guest curators from the Emory community,complements each photo. The materials illuminate the connections the writers have with each other and the special collections in MARBL. The guest curators were asked to write an essay explaining how their own research has been influenced by using primary source materials, and we will be featuring them here once a week. The following essay is by Alyssa Stalsberg Canelli about Salman Rushdie.

by Will Love, Graduate Processing Assistant

MARBL is pleased to announce new and updated additions to the collected manuscripts of Theodore Draper (MSS 579).  The collection now includes nineteen boxes of materials used by Draper during research for his book, A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs (1991).  The transcripts of Oliver North's and John Poindexter's federal trials and photocopies of North's private journals comprise the bulk of the material.

The Writers exhibition, on display in the Schatten Gallery until November, features photographer Nancy Crampton’s pictures of authors,poets, novelists, journalists and other writers. A small selection of MARBL materials, chosen by guest curators from the Emory community,complements each photo. The materials illuminate the connections the writers have with each other and the special collections in MARBL. The guest curators were asked to write an essay explaining how their own research has been influenced by using primary source materials, and we will be featuring them here once a week. The following essay is by Leah Nugent about Galway Kinnell.

by Randy Gue, Curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections, MARBL

Let me ask you a question: What did you do on your last vacation? Did you journey to Florida and sit on the beach? Did you play a round or two of golf or take in a baseball game while you were there?

The Writers exhibition, on display in the Schatten Gallery until November, features photographer Nancy Crampton’s pictures of authors,poets, novelists, journalists and other writers. A small selection of MARBL materials, chosen by guest curators from the Emory community,complements each photo. The materials illuminate the connections the writers have with each other and the special collections in MARBL. The guest curators were asked to write an essay explaining how their own research has been influenced by using primary source materials, and we will be featuring them here once a week. The following essay is by Joseph Skibell about Edward Albee and Tom Stoppard.

by Sara Logue, Research and Public Services Archivist, MARBL

In 1960, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution took on an enormous project to offer the people of its city an engaging look back at the Civil War period. Heavily researched by Norman Shavin, The Atlanta Century is a collection of weekly newspaper mockups that appeared as a series for over five years, offering its viewers a look at the tumultuous 1860s with the benefit of hindsight.

by David Faulds, Rare Book Librarian, dfaulds@emory.edu

A bibliographical mystery in MARBL's rare book collection is a small eleven page pamphlet, published in 1860, titled List of Negroes at Hagley, Weehawka & True Blue Plantations. The text is an inventory of slaves with the name of the plantation followed by the name of the plantation owner and the names of the individual slaves, divided into men, women and children with "House servants" being a separate category for True Blue plantation.