Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • A Tale of Redemption

    December 10, 2012

    The Cross Boy Reformed (ALbany: G. J. Loomis & Co., 1822) in its entirety.
  • On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder

    New Research From Beinecke Collections

    December 1, 2012

    On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder From the Publisher: Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book,...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    New Research from Beinecke Collections

    December 1, 2012

    SAUL STEINBERG: A Biography By Deirdre Bair SAUL STEINBERG: A Biography By Deirdre Bair, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN-13: 9780385524483 From the...
  • Fabled Old Friends

    November 26, 2012

    Old Friends in a New Dress; or, Familiar Fables in Verse (New Haven, CT and Charleston, S.C. : Sidney’s Press, 1823) A versified retelling of moral...
  • All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen

    New From Beinecke Collections

    November 10, 2012

    All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and...
  • New from Beinecke's Collections

    November 10, 2012

    From the Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers in the Yale Collection of American Literature ( YCAL MSS 196 & YCAL MSS 197 ) The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan...
  • Navigating NYC in Children’s Books

    November 6, 2012

    “Navigating NYC in Children’s Books: A Whistle-Stop Tour” A lecture by Pádraic Whyte, School of English, Trinity College Dublin Thursday, November 8, 2012 5:15...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    New Research from Beinecke Collections

    November 1, 2012

    Thornton Wilder A Life By Penelope Niven published by HarperCollins Read Charles Isherwood’s review in the New York Times : A Life Captured With Luster...
  • Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein with Pepe and Basket, [1932]

    Gertrude Gertrude Stein Stein

    October 25, 2012

    “Gertrude Gertrude Stein Stein: What are the Questions?” by Joan Retallack, poet, essayist, critic, and professor at Bard College Friday, October 26 at 5:00 pm...