Poster design for the Morgan Library

& Museum exhibition that features

handwritten collections of renowned

historical figures.

The thousand collections of

handwritten letters, manuscripts, and

musical compositions as well as

inscribed photographs, drawings, and

documents of six broad areas of

human endeavor— art, history,

literature, science, music, and

entertainment.

Some of them include letters by

Abraham Lincoln and Oscar Wilde,

annotated sketches by Pablo Picasso

and Henri Matisse, and manuscripts

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The items on view convey the power

of handwriting to connect us with 

writers, artists, composers, political

figures, performers, explorers,

scientists, philosophers, rebels, and

others whose actions and creations

have made them legends.