As I’m exhuming? excavating? exploring? the literary history of Duluth (largely by scooping up books from thrift stores and picking up connections with people wherever I can find them) I find the weirdest things, like books published by the Duluth Manuscript Club.

We remember — : memories of the Duluth Manuscript Club.

Publisher, Date: Duluth : Duluth Manuscript Club, c2006.
Description: 164 p. : ill.

Take a look by the Duluth Manuscript Club.

Publisher, Date: Duluth : Duluth Manuscript Club, c1983.
Description: 100 p. : ill.

Take another look : a sequel to Take a look : memories of twentieth century Duluth by the Duluth Manuscript Club.

[edited by Gerda E. Woelffer]
Publisher, Date: Duluth : Duluth Manuscript Club, c1994.
Description: 73 p. : ill.

I asked Gina, the local history librarian at the Duluth Public Library, about this organization, and she said there were files …  and files … about local clubs like this. Here is the partial list:

The Duluth Manuscript Club was for literary and writing pursuits. (See its constitution below.)

As recently as 15 years ago, there were still members of the club ready to attend sessions at Kathryn Martin Library at UMD to share memories of the club. Are there any readers here who live a connection to the Manuscript Club who have stories to share?