The newest issue of the Harvard Gazette reports on the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project, and the excitement of two of the Harvard-based project members at locating a previously unrecorded Darwin letter at Houghton….
Newly digitized items for December
Arthur Rackham illustrations for Peter Pan, a 13th-century manuscript poem, and a passionate plea from Dorothea Dix are among this month’s newly digitized items. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]…
Hyde philanthropy noted
The Fall 2010 issue of Philanthropy magazine includes an article on the 2003 bequest by Mary Hyde, Viscountess Eccles, not just of her unparalleled collection on the life and work of Samuel Johnson and his circle, but also of an endowment that funds the ongoing management and enhancement of the collection….
New on OASIS in December
Finding aids for twelve newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including papers from David Mamet, photographs from the Ballets Russes, and vaudeville memorabilia….
Newly digitized items for November
[This is the first in a monthly series of Houghton books and manuscripts which have recently been digitized. Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]…
New on OASIS in November
Finding aids for six newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including papers from Tropic of Cancer author Henry Miller, and a collection of memorabilia from a troupe of vaudevillians….
“The Universe’s hash” Settled: The William James Lecture
The Houghton Library and the Harvard Divinity School join in commemorating the centenary of the death of Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James. Linda Simon, biographer of William James, will deliver the annual William James Lecture on Wednesday, October 27th, at 5.15 P.M. in the Lamont Forum Room. Simon’s talk, “William James’s Transitions,” looks at…
After the Flood
See HCL News for the full story on the discoveries made by paper conservator Christopher Sokolowski in the course of treating a number of items damaged in a water leak in 2008. Perhaps the most interesting of these relates to a collection of drawings from an early-17th century French ballet. Under x-ray fluorescence analysis, Sokolowski…
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli and His Library
The Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book and Houghton Library, Harvard University, are pleased to present the following lecture by Professor Angela Nuovo of the Universita di Udine: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) and His Library: Book Collecting and the Republic of Letters in Late Renaissance Italy Thursday, October 14, 5pm Barker Center…
Early Maps of Siberia Digitized
[Public Services Assistant Emilie Hardman contributed this post about the recently completed digitization of a set of 17th-century maps of Siberia.] This person grew up and became rooted In a bright-blue country, So great that it could not be encircled in flight By nine waves of white-headed cranes Even in nine full years… Traditional poetry…