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…
John Ward and His Magnificent Collection
[This post was contributed by William Stoneman, Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library.] John Ward and His Magnificent Collection, edited by Gordon Hollis and published earlier this year by Golden Legend, Inc., is described by Hollis as a second festschrift in honor of Ward, a full 25 years after a first festschrift and his retirement…
New on OASIS in October
Finding aids for 12 newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including illustrations for T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, watercolor images of 19th-century Boston theaters, and interviews with psychoanalyst Erik Erikson….