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Pen & Paper

"Dear Berenson,
I am beginning in comparative peace to write to you. I am so much driven by people asking questions...that when a moment comes that I am alone in the house I can write a word perhaps!"
-Isabella Stewart Gardner in a letter to Bernard Berenson, February 4, 1900

Isabella Stewart Gardner’s era was the golden age of letter writing. At the heart of the Gardner collection lays an archive of hundreds of letters and documents from some of the greatest artists, writers, celebrities, and thinkers of all time.

Gift at the Gardner's collection of notecards, journals, writing instruments, and desk adornments encourage writers to reconnect with the lost art of writing, recording, and corresponding by hand.