Curator Talk: Dr Philip Palmer from The Morgan Library
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To complement our newest exhibition, An A-Z of Beatrix Potter, we are excited to run our new series, Curator Talks. These talks will run over five sessions as we hear from curators involved in taking care of Beatrix Potter's history and memory.The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, founded by American financier J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), holds one of the world's most significant collections of children's literature, including manuscript material and artwork for Le Petit Prince and Babar. One of the crown jewels of this collection is a group of twelve picture letters written by Beatrix Potter between 1892 and 1900. The Morgan's curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, Philip Palmer, will speak about this extraordinary group of illustrated letters, recently published in facsimile, as well as his work on the 2024 exhibition Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature. Curated by the V&A and the National Trust and drawing extensively on holdings at The Armitt, this exhibition proved to be one of the most popular Morgan shows in recent memory; Philip will talk about the process of adapting and designing this exhibition for the Morgan. His talk will conclude with a recent acquisition of an illustrated letter Beatrix Potter wrote to a child.
About the speaker
Philip S. Palmer is the Robert H. Taylor Curator and Department Head of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum. He holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and worked for five years at UCLA's Clark Library before coming to the Morgan in 2019. His interests are wide-ranging, and he has curated exhibitions at the Morgan on Woody Guthrie, James Joyce, The Little Prince, and the Morgan’s first librarian and director, Belle da Costa Greene. In 2024, he organised the Morgan Library’s presentation of Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature, curated by the V&A and the National Trust.
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Saturday 6 June 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (UTC+01)Location
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