 | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
The Manuscripts and Archives Department at the Yale University Library will present several special events this month marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001), wife of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, who was a pioneering American aviator in her own right, as well as a noted author and conservationist.
Talks by a daughter and a niece of the Lindberghs will open the first-ever exhibition of the Anne Morrow Lindbergh Papers on Friday, June 16. A Yale archivist who has played a key role in the preservation of the collection will also present a slide show and tour on Thursday, June 22. All the events are free and open to the public.
Manuscripts and Archives is the principal repository for the Anne Morrow and Charles A. Lindbergh Papers. The former consists of over 300 archival boxes of her letters, diaries, writings, photographs and memorabilia -- most of which have not been published.
The exhibition, titled "Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Author, Aviator and Environmentalist," will present highlights of these papers, including letters by Amelia Earhart, Lady Bird Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Virginia Woolf, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vita Sackville-West, Igor Sikorsky, Stephen Spender and Thornton Wilder. Also featured will be photographs taken by Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Pacific and Atlantic Survey Flights for Pan American Airlines that she took with her husband. During these flights, Anne Lindbergh served as co-pilot, navigator, radio operator and aerial photographer. Many of these were published in her extended article in National Geographic, "Flying Around the North Atlantic."
Also included will be selections from her manuscript diaries, poetry, essays and books including "North to the Orient," "Listen! the Wind," "The Unicorn and Other Poems, 1935-1955" and the best-seller "Gift from the Sea," which was recently re-published in a special 50th anniversary edition.
The exhibition will be on view June 12-Sept. 8 in the Memorabilia Room of Sterling Memorial Library (enter at 128 Wall St).
The program formally celebrating the opening of the exhibit will take place 2:30-5 p.m. on June 16 in the Memorabilia Room. The talks will begin at 3 p.m. Reeve Lindbergh will speak about her mother in a presentation titled "Anne Morrow Lindbergh: An Intimate View," while niece Margaret Eiluned Morgan will discuss "Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The Writer and the Writing."
Reeve Lindbergh is the author of two family memoirs, "No More Words" and "Under a Wing"; two novels, "Moving To The Country" and "The Names of the Mountains"; and "View from the Air," a poem presenting Charles Lindbergh's love of earth and sky, illustrated by photographs taken on her father's last flights by nature and landscape photographer Richard W. Brown. She has also authored an illustrated book of essays and a number of children's books. She has written the foreword to a number of books including "Return to the Sea," "Flying Free" and five editions of children's poetry anthology books, which celebrate the Anne Morrow Lindbergh Shell Coast Poetry Festival in Lee County, Florida.
Morgan is the daughter of Constance Morrow Morgan, Anne Morrow Lindbergh's sister. An economist, Morgan is founder and chair of the EarthShine Institute, an organization based in Florida that presents educational and cultural programs that further the shared vision of Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Judith Schiff, chief research archivist in Manuscripts and Archives, will present a slide show of highlights from the Lindbergh Papers at Yale, and guide visitors through the exhibit at 1 p.m. on June 22. Schiff is co-editor of Charles Lindbergh's unfinished "Autobiography of Values," which was published after his death in 1978, and she served as an adviser to Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the preservation of the couple's documents. The program is part of Arts & Ideas New Haven (see related story).
The Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St., is open for exhibition viewing 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; 8:30 a.m.-9:45 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Saturday; and noon-4:45 p.m. some Sundays (check the website at www.library.yale.edu/rsc/sml). The library is closed July 4 and Labor Day. For information visit the website or call (203) 432-2798.
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