News at Eleven: "To have something that has lasted

for more than 360 years and is written in her own handwriting is very exciting," said Sue Ellen Holmes, the library director. "It's in such fragile condition, but it's still here."

Preparations for displaying the [Anne Bradstreet] manuscript have been by necessity elaborate, due to its delicacy.

from The Boston Globe: In North Andover, pages from an early poet

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