Friends of Wellesley College Wellesley College 31 • FALL 2013 • NUMBER 2

The Papers of Anne Whitney: Scholarship, Classes, and a Crowd-Sourced Transcription Project for Wellesley Jacqueline Marie Musacchio ’89, Chair, Art Department

significant number of of Art in New York and the Museum of Alcott’s real painter sister May, American women artists of Fine Arts in Boston were not stated that she always wanted to “go A lived and worked in late founded until the 1870s and they had to Rome, and do fine pictures, and be nineteenth-century Rome; they were few original objects in their early col- the best artist in the whole world.” evocatively but dismissively de- lections. These women also went But this was a fraught time in Ital- scribed by Henry James as “that abroad to push against social con- ian history. The ongoing tensions of strange sisterhood of American ‘lady unification, which pitted the papacy sculptors’ who at one time settled against the new secular government upon the seven hills in a white, mar- and its citizens, resulted in political, morean flock.” The poet and sculptor economic, and social upheaval on a Anne Whitney (1821-1915) was part of dramatic scale. Italy’s Ancient and artistic, literary, and political circles Renaissance past, as well as its com- in her native Massachusetts, and a plicated present, embedded in both key member of this community of Catholicism and these shifting politi- women artists during her years cal circumstances, were often misun- abroad. Although Whitney’s oeuvre derstood by American travelers. Yet includes statues of Samuel Adams for life in Italy had distinct advantages for the United States Capitol building, artists and these outweighed – and and Leif Erikson and Charles Sumner even allowed them to ignore – the for public sites in Boston, few associ- tensions that plagued native Italians. ate these monuments with her name In a letter to her sister in 1871 Whit- today, and even fewer recognize her Pulling first year students through the ney wrote, “What your objec- role in Rome’s Anglo-American sculpture of Harriet Martineau was a tion…may be to Roman dust, which community. But Whitney and her rite of passage until the loss of College you wish to see me shake from my Hall to fire in 1914. The statue was partner, the painter Addy Manning, completed by Anne Whitney in 1883, and feet, I don’t appreciate. It is certain were abroad from 1867-71 and 1875- donated to Wellesley College in 1886. that there is not another city on this 76, primarily in Rome but also in Image from 1913 Wellesley College Leg- earth which gives so much (to me) for Florence and for several months each enda. (Wellesley College Archives) so little.” summer elsewhere in Europe; every- strictions; they were informed by Whitney’s experience was not where they went, they were actively texts like Germaine de Staël’s Cor- unique among this pioneering group engaged in their adopted cities. inne (1807), Elizabeth Barrett Brown- of American women artists who lived During this period increasingly ing’s Aurora Leigh (1857), and Na- in, interacted with, and understood regular and affordable ships and rail- Italian art and history. But the docu- thaniel Hawthorne’s Marble Faun ways brought Americans to and mentation about Whitney makes her (1860), all of which advocated Italy as around Europe. Many were aspiring a particularly valuable case study for a destination for independent and women artists seeking training and women’s art and lives in the nine- creative women. Indeed, the charac- contact with original art that they teenth century. Wellesley’s Archives ter of Amy in Louisa May Alcott’s could not get at home; public collec- Little Women (1868), a veiled version tions like the Metropolitan Museum CONTINUED on page 3 PAGE 2 • FRIENDS OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE LIBRARY A Message From the Co-Chair Georgia B. Barnhill ’66 FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY Dear Friends, Once again, summer is over and and her staff busy. Hearing about Honorary Chairperson fall has arrived. The steering commit- Jacqueline Musacchio’s class that is H. Kim Bottomly tee of the Friends of the Library held transcribing Anne Whitney’s Travel Founding Member its first meeting of the academic year Letters (already digitized thanks to Mary E. Jackson ’24 in September and welcomed several FOL support), a project that will new members whom you will meet in eventually be open to all Wellesley the pages of the Newsletter. We also alums, made several of us volunteer. Co-Chairs welcomed Ian Graham to his first We were intrigued as well to hear Georgia Brady Barnhill ’66 Ian Graham meeting as co-chair. about Wellesley’s participation in Although the love of and edX. Registering is easy. It is quite Manager of Friends Programs traditional learning probably played a fascinating to contemplate how Well- Elizabeth Ahern Crowley role in bringing us as individuals to esley’s course offerings can circle the membership in the Friends of the globe. There is an ongoing debate Newsletter Editor Library and to the Steering Commit- about whether online education or Amanda Zoellner ’03 tee, there was a palpable sense of ex- distance learning can be equivalent to Photography citement around the table as we an education with live class participa- Sarah Gilman ’82 learned from Ravi Ravishanker, the tion and a professor who closely Chief Information Officer and Asso- works with students. But offering ciate Dean, about new electronic of- such excellent instruction with mas- Steering Committee ferings and services enriching the sive electronic support is an intrigu- Mary Allen Judith Black intellectual lives of students and fac- ing development for the College. As Barbara E. Coburn ’52 ulty alike. Take a look at the website Ravi Ravishanker has noted, “The Clemency Chase Coggins ’55 for Library and Technology Services possibilities are endless and exciting; Elizabeth Febo and you will see the diversity of activi- the challenge is to harmonize the ca- Sarah Gilman ’82 ties sponsored by the library. You pabilities of the new technology with Anne Yost Harper ’58 will find ongoing hands-on work- the academic rigor that is at Welles- Linda Leahy ’66 Nancy L. Leblang ’78 shops that introduce students to elec- ley’s core.” Take a look at this fall’s Ruth R. Rogers tronic resources and how to make the Introduction to Human Evolution Lorraine Roses best use of Google. You will read taught by Adam Van Arsdale. Susan F. Saul ’65 about The American Revolution and Finally, I hope that we will see Wilma Slaight the Early Republic, an excellent ex- you at the fall program organized by Diane S. Triant ’68 hibition of rare books and unique Leslie Wilson ’75, on November 9 at Leslie Perrin Wilson ’75 Amanda Zoellner ’03 manuscripts from Special Collections the Concord Free Public Library’s that is on display at the Clapp Library William Munroe Special Collections. this fall. And Katherine Ruffin is of- It promises to be a great opportunity Emeritae fering workshops open to students to learn about a great and Janice L. Hunt ’52 and staff in the arts lab on how other support academic Lia Gelin Poorvu ’56 Wednesday afternoons. I envy those research. Polly Slavet ’67 June M. Stobaugh ’66 who have participated. Thank you for your continued Elinor Bunn Thompson ’37 Classes from a multitude of dis- support of the libraries at Wellesley! ciplines visit Special Collections on a regular basis, keeping Ruth Rogers Georgia B. Barnhill ’66 FALL 2013 • PAGE 3 ANNE WHITNEY continued from page 1 house approximately four thousand clopedias, maps, timelines, and high- family knew the Durants and she her- largely unpublished letters to and light articles on topics of particular self knew Alice Freeman and George from Whitney over the course of her interest to class members. Working Herbert Palmer, as well as professor long life; almost four hundred of with these largely unpublished and Vita Scudder and benefactor Eben these fragile letters, scrawled on unknown letters allows my students Horsford; she taught here for at least onion-skin paper, document her time to understand women’s lives in the a semester and her statue of the Eng- abroad. I began to work with these past through a particularly rich cache lish author and feminist Harriet Mar- amazingly detailed abroad letters dur- of primary source materials; their tineau was a focal point of College ing my research on one of Whitney’s articles, which will be published on Hall before it was destroyed in the contemporaries. This led to my arti- our future website, will give students 1914 fire. The Davis Museum owns cle, “Infesting the Galleries of the chance to make their own contri- seven of her sculptures, and a painted Europe: The Copyist Emma Conant butions to scholarship. portrait of Whitney by Elizabeth Bi- Church in Paris and Rome,” which This is a huge project; Whitney’s gelow Greene. Thanks to a grant was published in Nineteenth-Century abroad letters will keep me and my from the Friends of the Library Inno- Art Worldwide in 2011 (http://www. students occupied for the foreseeable vations in & Scholarship 19thc-artworldwide. org). But I future. In the meantime, however, I Fund, we are digitizing some five quickly realized how much more wanted to find a way to make the rest hundred letters to pilot this website; I there was to do, and I am now writing of Whitney’s letters accessible. A selected a group of correspondents a book on the lives and art of Whitney growing number of institutions have ranging from the personal (Whit- and her sister artists abroad. been releasing unusual materials ney’s family), to the more public and through digital technology and recognizable (the artist Harriet Hos- Crowd-Sourced Transcription crowd-sourcing; these projects, mer, the suffragist Caroline Healey Thanks to the extraordinary as- which quite literally enlist crowds to Dall, the abolitionist William Lloyd sistance and support of Wellesley’s work at their leisure transcribing Garrison), to people related to Well- Library and Technology Services handwritten sources for easier public esley’s history, all to provide the wid- staff, led by Ian Graham, Director of consumption, provide exciting new est possible insight into Whitney’s Library Collections, since Spring opportunities for research and teach- world. I am confident that fantastic 2012 I have taught six independent ing. But even more importantly, they and unexpected discoveries about all studies and two seminars on this ma- allow anyone interested in a particu- aspects of life during Whitney’s era terial. Support from the Friends of lar topic to access materials that had will appear as the letters are tran- the Library allowed us to digitize all been previously hidden in archives scribed. In this pilot stage, Wellesley of Whitney’s abroad letters for easy and libraries. Successful crowd- faculty, staff, students, and alumnae access for my students, and LTS staff sourced projects include the New will sign in to access digitized ver- have assisted me in the complexities York Public Library’s What’s on the sions of Whitney’s letters for tran- associated with a curriculum that Menu? (http://menus.nypl.org/) scription and peer review. While I am combines art historical scholarship and the University of Iowa’s DIY His- responsible for the scholarly content and a significant amount of digital tory (http://diyhistory.lib. of the site, Jenifer Bartle, Wellesley’s work. My Fall 2013 seminar, Ameri- uiowa.edu/), both of which involve Manager of Digital Scholarship Ini- can Women Artists in Italy: Art, the participation of hundreds of vol- tiatives, is tackling the daunting task Travel and Gender (ARTH 380), in- unteers to transcribe everything from of website construction and design. I corporates relevant and dis- menus to Civil War diaries. hope many of you will look for an- cussions as well as explorations of With this in mind, my LTS col- nouncements about this project in local museums and Wellesley’s own leagues and I are collaborating to the spring, and attend our talk at Re- Archives, Special Collections, Book create a crowd-sourced transcription union; we are looking forward to en- Arts Laboratory, and Davis Museum. website for Whitney’s letters, to be gaging the Wellesley community in Students transcribe and annotate launched to the Wellesley community this hands-on history project and Whitney’s abroad letters as part of a at Reunion in June 2014. This is a hope you will join us in our efforts to future online resource that will in- rich topic for Wellesley; Whitney’s bring Whitney and her world to life! corporate digitized letters with ency-  PAGE 4 • FRIENDS OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE LIBRARY The American Revolution and The Early Republic: An Exhibit of Manuscripts and Rare Books from Special Collections Mariana S. Oller, Associate Curator of Special Collections

fter an unequivocal experi- ence of the inefficiency of the A subsisting federal govern- ment, you are called upon to deliber- ate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; compre- hending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed…” Thus Alexander Hamilton ad- dressed the People of the State of New York in October 1787 in his opening paragraph to the First num- ber of The Federalist—the most influ- ential work of political philosophy "Surrender of British Standards at Yorktown." From Benson John Lossing, The Pictorial published in the U.S. in the late 18th Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. (Courtesy of century, which has retained its rele- Wellesley College Library, Special Collections.) vance and critical importance to the tain in the British Army signed by Gazette of the United States, pub- interpreting of the U.S. Constitution King George III. General George until this day. The first serial lished on April 15, 1789, in New York Washington’s autograph letter to of the U.S. Constitution appeared in City. Diaries, memoirs, and travel The Committee on Safety of New narratives reveal individual view- the September 1787 issue of The York from the spring of 1776 aims to points from the period of formation American Museum—a publication of determine, among other things, the of our nation. Historical analyses, the noted Philadelphia printer extent of the Continental Army political addresses, and sketchbooks Mathew Carey. It is currently on view Commander-in-Chief’s authority register both American and British alongside an early of The over the New York Militia. Of par- interpretations of the events during Federalist at the Margaret Clapp Li- ticular interest are documents relat- and after the Revolutionary War. The brary as part of an impressive exhibi- ing to Deborah Sampson Gannett, exhibition highlights the wealth of tion of books and manuscripts from who served in the Revolutionary War resources that Special Collections Special Collections, entitled “The disguised as a man. Autograph letters has to offer to students and research- American Revolution and the Early by Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de ers of the American Revolution and Republic.” Lafayette add to the richness and di- the Early Republic.  The materials on display were versity of the display. selected and described by Mariana S. Viewers can read the tally of The exhibition will be on display Oller, Associate Curator of Special votes for the First U.S. President un- through December 20, 2013, in the Collections. Manuscripts range from der the new Constitution as printed Lobby and Reference Room of the the 1778 Orderly Book of Colonel on page two of the beautifully pre- Margaret Clapp Library. Samuel Gerrish’s Massachusetts served copy of the first issue of the Regiment to a commission for a cap- FALL 2013 • PAGE 5 Spotlight on Angie Batson, Resource Sharing Specialist Diane Speare Triant ’68

nyone who has gone to a library student at Lesley University assigned to bibliothek, the only Aand made a request for a book the library circulation desk. Upon available source. available only from a neighboring town’s graduation, she stayed on for four more In her decade collection is familiar with the concept of years prior to accepting a position at of work in resource inter-library loan (ILL). At Wellesley, Northeastern University’s Snell Library. sharing, Batson has though, “resource sharing” – a new term There, she cultivated and honed her ex- witnessed an explo- for ILL – has reached new dimensions. pertise in resource sharing for seven sion of new options Angie Batson, who joined the library years before coming to Wellesley. made possible by staff in February, works with several staff Batson finds that at Clapp Library the digital age. members and 17 students to fulfill the there is no typical day in the global quest “The shift to electronic databases and e- borrowing and lending needs of not only for and exchange of books, journals, materials has added a level of speed and the Wellesley community, but academic DVDs, posters, microfilm, media, e- efficiency to the ILL world,” she con- communities worldwide. items, and other research materials. firms. “Requests are filled much faster “We are a very busy office,” she “We’ve requested everything from for- [by simply sending] a pdf to the bor- says. “In an average semester, we borrow eign newspapers from the 1800’s to a rower.” about 4,700 books and 1500 articles and current novel on the best-sellers’ list,” While many enjoy the convenience lend about 5,400 books and 3,000 arti- she says. “We’ve also lent theses and of materials delivered to their computer cles. We borrow and lend from hundreds copied and scanned pages from materials screens, the time-honored demand for of libraries nationally and internation- in our Archives and Special Collec- hard-cover books is still thriving. Just ally. We currently belong to four differ- tions.” One student was seeking a par- ask the Wellesley student who is happily ent ILL systems (Rapid, ILLiad, NEx- ticular article on Latin-American poets reading J.K. Rowling’s popular crime press and WorldCat) and are part of before the Spanish civil war period, but novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling – a volume three consortia.” written in French. Batson’s team tracked she requested that is not in Wellesley’s Batson’s interest in library work it down to – improbably – Germany, lo- collections. It was recently placed into developed when she was a work-study cating it in Munich’s Bayerische Staats- her hands at Clapp’s service desk.  Old Books, New Readers Ruth R. Rogers, Curator of Special Collections

s many Wellesley students and ket will always be beyond our budget, scholars in the form of faculty and stu- Aalumnae know, Special Collections but well-timed and strategic purchases dents to the riches of primary sources. houses the rare and non-circulating are still possible. Thanks to powerful Following is a sampling of recent acqui- books of the Wellesley College Library. networks of online international book- sitions. One might easily assume from the locked sellers’ catalogs, the search for rare book Anthropology and evolutionary bi- door, the glass-enclosed , and acquisitions is much easier than it used ology classes taught by Professors Adam elegant cherry tables that this corner of to be in the days of air mailed catalogs. Van Arsdale and Emily Buchholtz will be Clapp is a quiet place, and that once a So which new rare books are pur- able to see a first edition of a book that book occupies a spot on the shelf, it does chased and who uses them once they are until now they have only learned about in not come down from its perch too often. at Wellesley? The first principle of col- theory. It is Georges Cuvier’s Tableau Wrong. Not only do rare books circulate lecting is: “add to strength.” If an insti- Élémentaire de l’Histoire Naturelle des for classes and researchers, there are tution already owns a good selection of Animaux, published in Paris in 1798. more added every year. threshold works in the history of science, Cuvier is important because he is gener- Thanks to the College’s early bene- it makes sense to find books that fill in ally credited as the founder of modern factors, as well as generations of gener- the gaps. The second principle, besides paleontology, while simultaneously be- ous faculty, alumnae, and their families, good condition and documented prove- ing a harsh critic of evolution. Professor Special Collections has always had en- nance, is, at least for the Wellesley Col- Buchholtz reacted with delight when she dowed funds for the purchase of rare lege Library: “support the curriculum.” heard that we acquired the book: “I lec- books and limited editions. The cost of Supporting the curriculum with relevant ture on him every year in comparative many rare books on the antiquarian mar- rare books brings many rewards and new CONTINUED on page 7 PAGE 6 • FRIENDS OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE LIBRARY New Steering Welcome, Co-Chair Ian Graham! Georgia B. Barnhill ’66 Committee Members

hen Eileen Hardy, former I went to the library, and as my par- etty Febo retired from the Well- Wstaff co-chair, retired last ents tell the story, spent first grade Besley College Library in June spring, Ravi Ravishanker appointed reading every book in the school li- 2011. She held various library posi- Ian Graham as the co-chair of the brary. tions during her 25 years of service, committee. Ian’s interests in books retiring as Assistant Director of Re- and literature are many—he gradu- Why did you decide to enter the li- search Services. ated from Drew University as an Eng- brary sciences field? I worked in pub- Betty insti- lish major with a minor in Russian lishing for several years before mov- tuted the Stu- language and literature. Several years ing to Maine. A job in the Bowdoin dent Library Re- in the world of and a posi- College Library opened up while I search Awards, tion in archives and special collec- an annual con- tions at Bowdoin College preceded was working at the Admissions Office test sponsored his enrollment at Syracuse University there, and was able to convince the by the Friends of for his master’s degree in library and search committee to take a chance on the Library. Her interests include information science. me. I had a great mentor at Bowdoin auditing Wellesley classes, Pilates, He came to the Margaret Clapp who made it very clear that getting a family history, and her 14-month-old Library as an assistant archivist in library science degree would be very grandson. She and her husband 2005 and within six years became important to developing a career. Henry have three daughters and live college archivist and manager of ar- in Holliston, Mass.  chives, special collections, digital Do you have a vision on how the collections, and the book arts pro- FOL can assist the library? All librar- udith Black is Associate Professor gram. He became Director of the Li- ies continue to go through a tremen- JEmerita of Art at Wellesley Col- brary Collections Group in 2013. Ian dous amount of change. The Friends lege, where she taught for 23 years, has served the College in many ca- have been extraordinarily engaged and a photographer. Her work was pacities, including on the Academic part of a 1980’s wave of photography and generous through this ongoing Council and as curator of exhibitions that revealed how the domestic inte- in Clapp Library. process. There is much hard work rior, the lives of children, and the Ian graciously answered a few still ahead of us, as we continue the daily habits of the family are filled questions about himself for members transition to electronic resources and with meaning and arresting visual of the Friends of the Library. more engagement with the collec- interest. tions in the curriculum, including Black served as Director of Stu- Where did you grow up? I was born connecting the resources into the dio Art and was instrumental in creat- in New Jersey and then moved to new areas of digital scholarship. I ing and co-directing the Media Arts Kansas when I was 5 years old. We would like to see the Friends con- and Science moved back to New Jersey (same tinue to provide support and guid- program. She town!) the summer before I began also collabo- ance in these new areas, which in- seventh grade. rated with Span- cludes providing additional financial ish Professor What inspired your love of books? support for transitioning the collec- Carlos Ramos to My older brother was learning to read tions. In addition, I think it would be produce a book when I was four years old, and I a very productive exercise for me to and exhibit of learned how to read while he did. So work with the Friends to develop a photographs by when I started first grade in Kansas I shared vision of the emerging ‘new’ Ramon Rius. already knew how to read. When the Wellesley College Library.  She has been actively involved with rest of the class was learning to read, the Davis Museum and Cultural Cen- ter.  FALL 2013 • PAGE 7 Is it time to renew your membership? You may use the form below and make your check payable to Wellesley College.

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READERS continued from page 5 markably, the text of the Dialogo itself is mental two-volume folio edition. Les anatomy, as he was the mainstay of the preceded by extracts from its condemna- Ruines de Pompeii dessinées et mesurées ‘form follows function’ school of anat- tion by the Roman Catholic Church and pendant les années MDCCCIX, omy.” Galileo’s recantation, in Latin. MDCCCX, MDCCCXI was compiled by First editions of rare books breathe A 16th century book is among the François Mazois, an engineer and artist an aura of time past and capture the mo- new acquisitions, intended for a History appointed by Queen Caroline of Naples ment of the birth of an idea or discovery. course. For a new course in the spring of to draw and explore the ruins of the But sometimes a later edition is issued 2014, Sentimental Education in Early kingdom. Its magnificent engravings with material not present in the first. Modern Europe, History Professor Si- include faithfully copied frescoes and This is the case with Galileo’s famous mon Grote sought specific early works mosaics found in public buildings, deco- Dialogo… sopra i due massimi Sistemi that deal with the development of hu- rative art, domestic furnishings, and ar- del Mondo Tolemaico, e mankind’s non-rational capaciti- chitectural plans of temples, gardens, Copernicano. Padua, 1744. Richard es—senses, imaginations, memories, and villas, and baths. The volumes arrived French, Dean of the College and Profes- emotions. We were lucky to locate on- just in time for students in Professor sor of Astronomy, has often shown stu- line a copy of a book central to his Kimberly Cassibry’s Pompeii course to dents our prized first edition of this con- course, Congestorium Artificiose Memo- be the lucky first ones to study it. They troversial book, but he was eager for rie, by Johann Horst von Romberch. had viewed Pompeii images from later Wellesley to acquire this third edition Though our Venice 1533 edition is not published accounts, but these early 19th because it features important additions, the first, which appeared in 1520, this century engravings are much clearer and such as the first published transcriptions important early treatise on mnemonics closer in time to the actual discovery. of Galileo’s original manuscript notes. draws on a wide variety of sources, in- The chance to study these historic vol- When the Dialogo was originally pub- cluding Quintilian, Petrarch, and Dante. umes close-up in their impressive physi- lished in 1632, Galileo’s brave defense of In discussing mental images or symbols cal form was a thrill.  the Copernican system was condemned of information to be recalled, Romberch by the Pope. Galileo was sentenced to offers the reader a section on visual al- Special Collections is open by appoint- house arrest, and the book prohibited. A phabets, in which the images used re- ment to all researchers with an appropri- second edition appeared in 1710 under a semble the shape of letters. ate topic of study. For more information false imprint, but the third edition is its Finally, regarding antiquities, a ma- and hours, please consult our website: first lawful publication (112 years later), jor 19th century work on the art and ar- http://www.wellesley.edu/lts/collections indicated by the “imprimatur” of the chitecture of Pompeii was purchased /speccoll. official censor on the last page. Re- from a Parisian bookseller, in a monu- FRIENDS OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE LIBRARY NON-PROFIT ORG Office for Resources US POSTAGE Wellesley College PAID 106 Central Street BOSTON MA Wellesley, MA 02481-8203 PERMIT No 12548 http://www.wellesley.edu/alumnae/give/friends/library

Fall Program:The William Munroe Special Collections Leslie Perrin Wilson ’75, Curator of the William Munroe Special Collections n Saturday, November 9, be- in the Special Collections. After a Oginning at 10:30, the Friends of brief Curator’s introduction to the the Wellesley College Library will newly opened Special Collections tour the rich William Munroe Spe- gallery exhibition “The Munroes of cial Collections at the Concord Lexington and Concord,” explore Free Public Library, a research re- the display or view other art in the source for scholars from across the library building. country and around the globe as well What does this outing have to do as for area residents. with the Wellesley College Library? The program will begin in the Everything! My daily work as Curator Special Collections reading room. of the William Munroe Special Col- Learn about the library’s history and lections draws constantly on the un- view items—including Emerson, Al- Emerson Statue in Library, Concord paralleled liberal arts education pro- cott, and Thoreau manuscripts—that Mass. Sept. 29, 1920. (Photo by Herbert vided by Wellesley and the rare learn- reflect the collecting philosophy of Wendell Gleason) ing opportunities I enjoyed as Assis- the library. and Their World and of the forth- tant in Special Collections between Robert A. Gross, James L. and coming The Transcendentalists and 1975 and 1980. Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early Their World, Professor Gross is To take the tour, please contact American History at the University of thoroughly familiar with Concord’s me directly ([email protected]; Connecticut, will speak briefly about Special Collections. 978-318-3342). Also, please let me what makes collections like Con- Then, tour selected works of art know if you would like to reserve a cord’s so important for research. As on the library’s first floor and discuss place for lunch at the Colonial Inn author of the book The Minutemen how art meshes with other holdings following the tour. 