Now on display nypl: ancient Iraqi Cuneiform tablets, a manuscript of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and a paper knife fashioned from the paw of Charles Dickens’s pet cat
elegant, if slightly worn, writing desk . Carved from mahogany, it has two drawers and a wide writing slope, and is accompanied by a simple wooden chair. The bureau might be considered unremarkable, except that it is one of the desks at which Charles Dickens wrote “Great Expectations” in his country home of Gad’s Hill Place in Kent.
The Dickens desk crossed the Atlantic sometime in the 19th century. It was bought by Henry and Albert Berg, brothers whose family had migrated from Hungary to New York in 1862. They grew up to be literary enthusiasts as well as pioneering doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital, and amassed a collection of 3,500 manuscripts and first editions before donating them to thein 1940.
The works on show in “Treasures” are grouped according to themes such as “Beginnings” and “Explorations”. The library acquired Maya Angelou’s papers in 2010 and, included in a section entitled “Fortitude”, is the manuscript of her memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” . The neatly written page on display describes the moment she and her brother arrive in rural Arkansas, the words overlaid with a hasty sketch of a feather.
But the library is looking for as diverse an audience as possible, hence the range of objects on display: one corner holds ancient Iraqi Cuneiform tablets, another Christopher Robin Milne’s childhood stuffed toys, which inspired the “Winnie the Pooh” stories. The library plans to rotate the exhibits over the coming decades, so that as much of its 56m-strong collection as possible can make it from the basement to the vitrines.
All this is a stark contrast with the way most great archives stash away their collections in storage for decades. The Metropolitan Museum, for instance, displays about 4% of its holdings, the British Museum just 1%. But, as Mr Kiely notes, “if we didn’t display these works only a few people, scholars mostly, would know about their existence and get to see them”. Institutions often cite fear of damage for keeping their prized possessions in storage, sometimes with good reason.
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