This looks amazing!
What is very likely the largest collection of Bram Stoker's handwritten materials in the world will be on display at Emory University's Rose Library!
Can you imagine? Standing so close to his handwritten notes, correspondence, photos and various other things he felt were worth holding onto? From the Library website:
Rose Library obtained the collection, meticulously collected and preserved by private collector John Moore of Dublin, Ireland, from a book dealer in Galway. The massive literary haul includes approximately 1,500 books, mostly 19th and early 20th century Stoker texts, inscribed association copies, correspondence, manuscripts, playbills and other ephemera and photographs.
Beth Shoemaker, Rose Library’s rare book librarian at the time of the acquisition, said Moore spent about 40 years tracking down every authentic rare book and document by and about Stoker and “Dracula” that he could find. International interest in the collection is strong, and although Moore has exhibited it and allowed a select number of scholars and authors under contract to visit the materials in his home, Moore felt it was time to place this collection with a major academic library that has the ability to provide broader accessibility.
In a day and age where rare books are being purchased, their bindings sliced off, then scanned and destroyed, I know that any opportunity we, the public, have to see such rarities in person is a true gift!
Because eff Jeff Bezos for committing the crime of destroying rare books, amiright?
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