In the News: Clements Library on C-SPAN

C-SPAN Book TV visited the Clements Library on October 22nd as part of the national network's 2013 "Cities Tour," a production featuring the history and literary life of selected cities across the country. C-SPAN spent a week in Ann Arbor, interviewing area professors, authors, curators, and the Literati bookstore owners. The Clements Library segment aired on C-SPAN2 on November 16 at 12:00noon and November 17 at 10:30am (ET).

Items shown in the segment:

• Columbus, Christopher, and Gabriel Sánchez. Epistola Christofori Colom… [Rome: Stephen Plannck, after 29 April 1493]. 
• Thomas Gage draft of an order to Lt. Col. Francis Smith; April 18, 1775. Order for the Concord Expedition. Thomas Gage Papers. 
• Henry Clinton letter to John Burgoyne; August 10, 1777. Secret "mask letter" regarding Clinton's limited ability to provide support for Burgoyne. Henry Clinton Papers. 
• "Moore" [Benedict Arnold] letter to John André; July 15, 1780. Coded letter specifying Arnold's terms for the surrender of West Point. Henry Clinton Papers. 
• Charles Cornwallis official letter to Henry Clinton; October 20, 1781. Announcement of the British surrender at Yorktown. Henry Clinton Papers. 
• Tobias Lear's manuscript account of the final sickness and death of George Washington; December 15, 1799. Tobias Lear Papers. 

Clements Library segment hosted by C-SPAN: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/
Clements C-SPAN Cities Tour "Ann Arbor" website: http://www.c-span.org/LocalContent/AnnArbor/