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Eleanora Whitmore
The celebrant
Curator of rare manuscripts. Forty years of reading widely, hosting often, and keeping a fountain pen in every coat pocket. Dinner is on her tonight.
Volume I · The Birthday
Eleanora
The Twelfth of October · MMXXVI
The Athenaeum Library · Boston
Milestone Birthday · The Fortieth Year
Plate I
Chapter I
Dramatis Personae
Chapter II
In which forty chapters are quietly toasted.
Forty years of margin notes and late-night reading lamps, of friends collected one good conversation at a time. This evening is a small thank-you to the people who have kept the pages turning.
The next chapter is already half written.
Continued in Chapter III
Chapter III
The Gathering
The Venue
The Athenaeum Library
10½ Beacon Street · Boston
Reception 17:00 · Dinner 19:00
Attire
Black tie, library hush. Dark velvets, ivory silks, and well-loved books tucked under arms encouraged.
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