Postcard from Henri Matisse to Michael Stein (Gertrude’s Brother).

From The Steins Collect at the MET.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

Letter signed Poe: New York, to John Augustus Shea, 3 February 1845. 

The Morgan Library

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

Tamerlane
Autograph fragment [1828?],

The Morgan Library

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)

Eugénie Grandet
Autograph manuscript and corrected galley proofs signed, 1833

The Morgan Library

…Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
The New Colossus

F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter to his editor written in July, 1922. He was referring to The Great Gatsby.

Chopin - Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 “Heroic”

Document signed by Marie Antoinette, dated July 5th of 1792, talking about increasing the wages of the Swiss Guards at the Chateau de Saint Cloud.

Mozart’s handwritten manuscript of Symphonie n° 31 en ré majeur

Manuscript of “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen. Rough draft with suggested revisions by Siegfried Sassoon.

Walt Whitman hand written poem I cross’d the Nevadas…. Date unknown. 19th century.

I cross’d the Nevadas, I cross’d the
        plateaus,
I ascended the towering rocks along the
        Pacific, I sail’d out to sea,
I sail’d through the storm, I was re-
        fresh’d by the storm,
I watch’d with joy the threatening maws
        of the waves,
I mark’d the white combs where they
        career’d so high curling over,
I heard the wind piping, I saw the
        black clouds,

Essay by Man Ray

Newton’s notebook pages

Pages from Albert Einstein’s notebook