The Delancey Society is invited to a festive reception in the garden with the opportunity to preview the Rosenbach’s new exhibition, Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: Literature of Great Britain & Ireland opening to the public on June 16, 2024.
In this tour, we will join Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill aboard the USS Augusta and the HMS Prince of Wales and witness world history unfold in the midst of their deliberations. We will also discuss the consequences of the Atlantic Charter for global diplomacy since 1941 and consider the state of Anglo-American relations today.
In this program we’ll explore a wide array of holdings, including Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes for his gothic classic Dracula, correspondence from the iconic and incomparable Oscar Wilde, and, of course, one of our most famous holdings, Joyce’s manuscript of his Modernist masterpiece Ulysses.
Members are invited to join Kelsey Scouten Bates, The John C. Haas Director of the Rosenbach, to learn more about the Rosenbach’s exciting plans for the future over coffee and pastries. The program will begin at 10:00 am, after which members are invited to visit the Rosenbach’s new exhibition, Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: Literature of Great Britain & Ireland, before it opens to the public on June 16.
Every year, the world celebrates Bloomsday on June 16, the day that James Joyce’s Ulysses is set in 1904. Nowhere celebrates quite like the Rosenbach, home of Joyce’s manuscript. Bloomsday is a day-long public reading held on Delancey Place with musical performances that bring the epic novel to life.
Beginning with Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first acclaimed Black poet after Emancipation, we’ll spend the bulk of our time with letters and first editions of poet Langston Hughes and philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke-including the keystone work of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke’s The New Negro.
Transport yourself to the monasteries of early medieval Ireland by means of the remarkable, centuries-old tradition of calligraphy, closely associated with the Emerald Isle through such artifacts as the Book of Kells.
In this tour, you will come face-to-face with the remarkable legacy of the quintessential Philadelphian via rare books, handwritten autographed letters, historic prints, decorative arts, and other historic artifacts associated with Franklin’s life and times.
In this special panel discussion, Dr. Alexander L. Ames, Director of Outreach & Engagement at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, will interview leaders of the Princess Grace Irish Library to learn more about Princess Grace, the origins of the library, the work of the library today, and how Princess Grace’s legacy lives on in Philadelphia, Monaco, and Mayo, Ireland.
Join us on a new Biblioventure with two six-part series of haunted works of the nineteenth century: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.