Literary & Historical Manuscripts Collection July 8, 2008

The Morgan's collection of literary and historical manuscripts includes complete manuscripts and working drafts of poetry and prose as well as correspondence, journals and other documents of important British, European and American authors, artists, scientists and historical and political figures from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. The handwritten documents in the collection preserve a process of human activity -- from mind to hand to pen to paper -- with an immediacy and power indiscernible in texts produced electronically.