How I LOVE the Morgan Library…..
And Rossini:
And Schubert:
And a Book of Hours:
And kitchen photography in the atrium:
And an exhibition of John Singer Sargent charcoal drawings:
And stumbling upon the Penguin Books publishing headquarters:
And panna cotta dessert at dinner:
And a final preview of Scotland, Pa., which was very funny, for a while:
The Morgan is one of my favorite NYC places to visit.
I love the changing exhibits, with different old manuscripts every time I’m there.
And I’ve never taken a docent-led tour, so on this trip I spent an hour with a small group of others, all Americans, I think, learning from a Morgan employee.
And then I had my Wednesday lunch at the Morgan cafe: deviled eggs, a chicken and mushroom toastie.
While at luncheon, I was aware of a clear and certain incongruity: reading (and finishing) a book on the Kindle app on my iPhone while being surrounded by one of the world’s greatest private collections of books and manuscripts!
One of the current Morgan exhibits: The Magic of Handwriting.
Along the way I saw signatures and written letters of Mozart, Machiavelli, Darwin, Goethe, and others. And a bill from Sigmund Freud. And a receipt signed in massive script by Beethoven.
And Beethoven:
Here’s a manuscript by Mahler:
And in the North Room, incredibly detailed ancient cylinders that predate the alphabet:
