Word: wendorf
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Since that time Wendorf said it has been available to scholars, adding that users could consult a microfilm copy available in the reading room. In fact, library records show the microfilm has been checked out five times...
...literary heirs of Louisa May Alcott presented and sold a significant collection of Alcott papers to the Houghton library during its 50th anniversary in 1992," Wendorf said. "Our Alcott manuscripts are on deposit in the library including The Inheritance [and] have been catalogued and fully accessible to the public since they arrived...
...Wendorf said he is not sure what had recently garnered the manuscript such attention but guessed it was the recent publicity Alcott's works have received, due in part to the adaptation of Little Women to film...
According to Wendorf, because of the attention, the manuscript will be on public display in the future...
Despite the fact that the manuscript has been catalogued for 22 years, Wendorf called yesterday a "momentus afternoon for American literature and American literary manuscipts...