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Notes are about knowledge, and as the exhibits so richly demonstrate, knowledge exists in a great many forms and rhythms—by which I mean that the pace of production and accumulation varies from one form of knowledge to another. Take, for example, the...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville New York, NY; Salem, MA, 1846-1850 Herman Melville was given this copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on July 18, 1850, by his “Aunt...