An 18th century sheet of short prayers for the souls of the dead, intended to be cut into slips and randomly drawn out of a box. "For the Souls to whom you are strangely enraptured", "For the Souls whose pain you bear", ‘For the Souls of all Good Deeds", "For the Souls who loved you and those you loved in this life and no longer remember." #NewAcquisition

Sermon delivered on Dec. 23, 1754, at the dedication of the Convento de la Enseñanza, the first public school
for women in Mexico City. #NewAcquisition

A 1703 poem from a young Josiah Cotton, scion of one of the most important Puritan families in Massachusetts (and cousin of Cotton Mather), to one Deborah Browne. #NewAcquisition

My Fashion Police exhibition has closed but I’m still acquiring works from men who are mad about women’s clothing. This Italian priest is particularly concerned about bare arms and shoulders. #NewAcquisition

1794 rebus maps of England and France with a decidedly contrasting view of current events in each. (I hope someday to do an exhibition on radicalism and revolution in 1790s Britain and France, so I'm always on the lookout for stuff like this.) #NewAcquisition

A tiny relic of a venerated 18th century abbess—a little piece of her habit preserved in a folded printed sheet less than 10cm square. #NewAcquisition

I have been working for years to fill out our collection of the Minerva Press, a late 18th/early 19th century publisher that specialized in popular fiction by and for women. I love that this novel has a bit of self-referential product placement, describing a circulating library (a for-profit lending library) full of Minerva Press books. #NewAcquisition

I'm always on the lookout for books with features I've never seen before, and this is a 17th century day by day account of a siege of Copenhagen with little iconic images of typical occurrences during the siege that you could cut out of larger sheets at the back and paste in next to the relevant entries. It would have been much easier and cheaper to print that way than the printer embedding each image on its page. #newacquisition

This is a sheet of unused turnpike tickets from an 18th century English toll road. Something like this is so completely unremarkable in its time that it almost never survives, but in this case it was used as wastepaper to fill out a binding, and then recently discovered inside. #NewAcquisition