GJMEF Lecture Series: A Memorial to My Family

The Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Endowment Fund
Announces its 2017 Lecture & Docent Tour Series
The Legacy of the Garrett Family

Dr. Earle Havens will present “A Memorial to My Family”, the Story of the Garrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Evergreen. Earle Havens is the Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, at the Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University and author of the chapters on the library collection in the forthcoming history of Evergreen.

2017 will see the publication of the first book dedicated entirely to the history of the collections at Evergreen Museum & Library from the Johns Hopkins University Press. In his bequest of his collection to Johns Hopkins, John Work Garrett described his library as “a memorial to my family,” recalling the ubiquity of books, and the love of book collecting, that had shaped generations of the Garrett family at Evergreen. These sentiments are witnessed throughout the many exquisite library spaces at Evergreen, and in the host of personal bookplates that adorn many rare volumes there today. This illustrated talk will be the first to explore the full history of the Garrett Library—one of the truly great private rare book and manuscripts collections of late 19th- and early 20th-century America—based on new and extensive research conducted on the rare book collection, and Garrett family archives, at Evergreen.

Tours of the Mansion will be offered at 1 pm prior to the lecture at 2 pm. All tickets are $15. To register please call 410.539.6914 or email [email protected].