Another donation to our growing science fiction collections has arrived in the form of dozens of programs and status reports from science fiction conventions, including several World Cons. The programs were collected by Ron Taylor, and focus primarily on conventions from the 1980s and 1990s. They add still more depth to the convention materials already present in the Horvat collection.
This month’s item is a scrapbook assembled by William H. Ireland at the end of the eighteenth century containing many pieces related to his forgery of Shakespeare’s writing. Ireland managed to fool much of London’s literary elite with his hoax, which is documented in an extensive collection held by Special Collections. To find out more, download the PDF at the link below, or pick up a printed copy of the brochure in Special Collections, at the North circulation desk of the Main Library, or at Prairie Lights Bookstore in downtown Iowa City.
Download Item of the Month, October 2007 - William Henry Ireland’s Shakespeare Forgery Scrapbook
