A Day in the Life at The Clements Library: Jayne Ptolemy
Welcome to the very first edition of “A Day in the Life at The Clements Library!” Today, we meet with Jayne Ptolemy, Associate Curator of Manuscripts.
Halloween Divination
A nod of the head to Robert Burns and Clara L. Walmer from the Clements Library this Halloween 2025. Over 150 years ago, in the early 1870s, the annual celebration of Halloween in the United States was fading, according to one journalist. In The True Democrat of York,...
New Manuscripts Finding Aids, October 2025
The Clements Library Manuscripts Division has published eight new finding aids for collections ranging from scrapbooks to financial records. These handwritten materials are now available for anyone to research!
New Manuscript Finding Aids, September 2025
The staff of the Manuscripts Division spent the summer dutifully arranging and describing new collections, which are now available for research!
“Whiskers of National Reputation”: Recognizing the Beard of Moses Purnell Handy
By Cheney J. Schopieray for his friend David Johnson, who was a hairsbreadth away from trekking to Alaska for the 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships. On this World Beard Day, the Clements Library would like to doff its cap in recognition of the beard of...
National Nonprofit Day: Philanthropy in the Clements Collections
Happy National Nonprofit Day! Here at Clements, we are proud of the work that we do on a daily basis and are honored by the support that we get from our community. Let’s look back in time through some examples of early philanthropic endeavors.
New Manuscript Finding Aids, August 2025
The Manuscripts Division, including grad student intern Naomi Yu, have processed many archival collections that have recently been made discoverable online. The detailed finding aids they have created for each collection will be vital for future researchers utilizing our digital search tools.
New Manuscripts Finding Aids, June 2025
The staff of the Clements Library’s Manuscripts Division have been organizing and describing a wide variety of collections these past few months, making materials ranging from a teenage boy’s sketchbook to the treatment records of horse surgeons available...