Jun 27, 2024
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Started my internship at the Lilly Library the other day and have been working with some really gorgeous mid-1700s items from Latin America! This book (1744 from Mexico) must be delicious, as it has quite a bit of worming, and it had several loose pages/notes added to the larger book.
“Dear Gordon …
Well, and then again, well. I am wishing you a happy Valentine’s Day, and no doubt shall continue to do so for quite some time.”
--Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Gordon Lameyer, written “Wednesday morning, January 26, 1955”; The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956, 2017
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I wonder so often, what would have happened if Sylvia Plath had stayed with Gordon Lameyer and never met Richard Sassoon and then ulitmately Ted Hughes…
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Picture: Sylvia Plath with Gordon Lameyer on 24 July 1954 at Chatham, Massachusetts, around the time they were unofficially engaged.
Picture source: via https://www.bbc.co.uk; Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States; Copyright Courtesy Elizabeth Lameyer Gilmore
Kurt Vonnegut – Joe Petro III, "In 1993 Joe Petro III/ and I....", (silkscreen print), 1993, The Lilly Library Online Exhibitions, Lilly Library – Indiana University Libraries, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Andreae Vesalii, De humanitaire corporis fabrica, 1543. Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. Part 4
Andreae Vesalii, De humanitaire corporis fabrica, 1543. Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. Part 2
Love letter from Orson Welles to Rita Hayworth.
I can’t get over the magnificent illuminations.