Today in Special Collections we’ve been preparing for our upcoming exhibit From Source to Print: Published Research from Special Collections, which will include rare primary source materials housed here as well as examples of scholarly and academic work published about them.
As a sneak peek of the exhibit, here are several images of the work Albion and Marina, an original Charlotte Brontë manuscript from 1830 which will be on display alongside a 1999 critical edition edited by Julie McMaster and published through the assistance of Special Collections.
Written when she was just fourteen years old and considered a part of the Glass Town Saga which Charlotte created along with her siblings Anne, Emily, and Branwell, this tiny book is a mere 1.5″ x 2.75″ and is written in a microscopic script.
Wellesley received this manuscript from Anna Hooker Morse and Lewis Kennedy
Morse, members of the Class of 1921. It will be on display, along with the rest of From Source to Print, outside Special Collections in the Margaret Clapp Library beginning in late October 2014.
–Morgan Moore ’15
Special Collections Student Assistant