The Rosenbach continues its legacy as a world-class research institution, attracting scholars to its collections year-round and from all the corners of the globe. After the grand reopening in April 2003, seventy-seven researchers spent a total of 118 days studying the collections.

The Marianne Moore Papers remain the single most heavily-used collection. Selected projects included:

• MARY CHAPMAN, University of British Columbia, a book chapter on Moore and the suffrage movement;

• LESLEY WHEELER and CHRIS GAVALER, Washington & Lee University, an article on Moore and the Carlisle Indian School;

• CHIAKI SEKIGUCHI, Maebashi City, Japan, a revision of her dissertation on Moore and fashion; and

• CAMILLE NORTON, University of the Pacific, a libretto about Moore.

Researchers in other collections included:

• GENE M. MOORE, Universiteit van Amsterdam, continued work on the manuscript of Joseph Conrad’s An Outcast of the Islands for the critical edition to be published by Cambridge University Press.

• PORTIA FORMENTO, the Peddie School, used the Rush-Williams-Biddle family papers for her student project, a living history presentation on Julia Stockton Rush (1759-1848).

• RONALD BRIDWELL, University of South Carolina, used the journal of the American miniaturist John Henry Brown (1818-1891) to determine identity of subject of a portrait by Brown.

• ALBERT ELEN, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, studied the sketchbook of Girolamo da Carpi for a revision of his 1995 book on Italian drawing books.

• COLIN WHITE, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, read letters by and about Admiral Lord Nelson for eventual publication.

• JOE RAINONE, Baldwin, NY, examined Edward Sylvester Ellis’s dime novel The Steam Man of the Prairies ([1868?]) for a study of it and several of its popular successors.

• STEPHANIE A.V. GIBBS, University of Pennsylvania, studied, an illuminated manuscript of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis (ca. 1400-1450).

• MICHAEL MUSICK and JUDITH THORNE, National Archives, examined Robert E. Lee’s letter to Winfield Scott of 20 April 1861 explaining his decision to resign from the Union Army.

• NICHOLAS POPPER, Princeton University, studied a tract volume owned by the poet Gabriel Harvey (1545?-1630) for an article on Harvey’s reading and annotation habits.

• JAMES KNOWLES, University of Stirling, Scotland, studied several poetical commonplace books for the new Cambridge University Press edition of The Complete Works of Ben Jonson.

• SANDY WEBBER, Williamstown Art Conservation Center, used the military letterbook of Thomas Pownall, governor of Massachusetts during the French and Indian War, for a biography of the loyalist customs official Benjamin Hallowell of Boston.