Author: Nancy Shawcross
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Charles Mason and the Transit of Venus
It had been a busy day of meetings for me. Each time that I returned to my office, I noticed the same number as a missed call on my telephone. Although I tried calling back, I didn’t realize the person who was so eager to speak to me was in England. Around 10:00 in the…
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The Records of the Asylum for Orphan Girls (Part V)
In mid-January, in the midst of moving 13,000 linear feet of manuscripts during the renovation of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Penn, I received an e-mail from an agent at Pickering & Chatto, a London-based antiquarian bookseller. He was writing to offer me advance notice of two volumes of daily books and regulations…
Unique at Penn 