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(via Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth | The Morgan Library & Museum)

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A Thanksgiving proclamation (now on view)! ... “I do recommend and affign [sic] Thursday the Twenty-fixth [sic] Day of November next, to be devoted by the People of thefe [sic] States...” ... Happy Thanksgiving! ... George Washington (1732–1799), “By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation,” New York: printed by Childs & Swaine, 1789. Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1912.

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The book jacket that helped shape Gatsby. My review @MorganLibrary http://t.co/HX2Z2spFqf pic.twitter.com/0HciFCp4NG

— Edward Rothstein (@EdRothstein)

May 23, 2014

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RT @MorganLibrary: The Mouth of Hell from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves (or, lately, the Tri-State area). http://bit.ly/1alfvYq

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Counted among the @MorganLibrary's greatest treasures is the only surviving manuscript of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’—a 33-page fair copy, written by a scribe. Enjoy a digital facsimile of the manuscript, and more, here:http://bit.ly/9X1hU2