Recent Acquisitions

Archives and Special Collections continues to develop its holdings through the generosity of donors and through acquisitions that support research, teaching, and learning at Loyola University Maryland and Notre Dame of Maryland University. This page highlights new additions to our collections.

Emily Martin, Madness: reading Hamlet in the time of Covid-19 and other plagues

This stunning artist's book was created during the Covid-19 pandemic and weaves together the artist's reading of Hamlet, the pandemic, and reflections on the Black Lives Matter movement and racial injustice. 

Church Bulletins of St. Ignatius Church, 1894-1936

Archives and Special Collections was thrilled to receive this set of church bulletins in a transfer from Loyola University Maryland's Records Office. Ours is the only set we are aware of that is cataloged and publicly accessible in a library. Loyola College and St. Ignatius Church were located and administered together until Loyola's move to the Evergreen campus, so the bulletins contain a wealth of information about both the college and the church.

Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, Volume XVIII, Number 4. Philadelphia, April 1841

This volume includes the first appearance of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," today considered to be the world's first detective story. Poe served as the editor of Graham’s from February 1841 to April 1842.