Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

10/1/1976 - 7/31/1977

Funding Totals

$8,788.00 (approved)
$8,788.00 (awarded)


American Literature from Fenimore Cooper to Henry James

FAIN: GM-10771-76

Morgan Library and Museum (New York, NY 10016-3405)
Herbert Cahoon (Project Director: October 1976 to present)

To exhibit for the first time the Morgan Library s extensive collection of manuscripts of American writers of the 19th century - work by Cooper, Irving, Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Holmes, Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Henry James and others.