Day: March 2, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

You’ve Got Mail: Letters from the Ward Collection

The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection is comprised of thousands of books, scores, librettos, playbills, illustrations, and ephemera relating to public performances that incorporate music in an essential way, such as ballet, opera, social dance, pantomime, operetta, and burlesque. The letters in the collection offer a particularly quotidian…