Manuscript

Manuscript is one of the Houses of the Veil and is depicted in Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House. Manuscript was Yale's seventh "landed" senior society.

Book Information
The following information is found in the final pages of Ninth House provided by Leigh Bardugo.
 * Motto: Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.
 * Teachings: Mirror magic and glamours.
 * Famous Alumni: Jodie Foster, Anderson Cooper, David Gergen, Zoe Kazan

Real World Information

 * Manuscript Society at Yale

History

 * Founded in 1952, Manuscript is considered a "landed" society, since the alumni trust owns the society's meeting place or "tomb".
 * Manuscript was one of the first of the senior societies to offer membership to rising female Yale College seniors.
 * Each delegation is selected by consensus among Manuscript alumni, trustees, current delegates and significant others, unlike other Yale societies where undergraduate members more freely select, recruit, and initiate their society's next delegation.
 * The Wrexham Foundation is the society's alumni arm. Since 1956, the foundation has underwritten a scholarship in the humanities for a "senior who shall be judged to have written the best senior essay in the field of the humanities." Administered by Yale, it is given in memory of Wallace Notestein, M.A. 1903, Ph.D. 1908, Litt.D. 1951.
 * It holds the number 344 to be sacred.
 * The Society holds Enlightenment ideals, and the sun and sunflowers are both important symbols to members.
 * The society holds an annual gathering in its tomb on Halloween.
 * Manuscript is part of a four-society "Consortium" with the Aurelian Honor Society, Book & Snake and Berzelius.

Architecture
Designed by King-lui Wu, Manuscript's tomb is mid-century modern, unusual amid other societies' elaborate mid-to-late-19th century buildings. It appears from the outside to have only one level, yet conceals several subterranean floors. The tomb holds a vast collection of notable modern and contemporary art. Wu said that he designed the building "for privacy, not for secrecy." Dan Kiley was responsible for landscaping and Josef Albers for the brickwork intaglio mural.

Trivia

 * Manuscript briefly played host to the 1991-92 classes of Skull and Bones, who were temporarily locked out of their own tomb by alumni who objected to its undergraduates' decision to offer membership to women.