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...Richard Wendorf, librarian of Houghton Library, has been named the director and librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, a cultural center housing a book collection and art gallery...
...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...
...Wendorf described the novel as a "common notebook" that could have been found anywhere in the 1840s. He added that it was in "remarkably good condtion" although hard to read because it is somewhat faint