Month: March 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

Harvard Library Bulletin articles featured

We are pleased to report that the March-April issue of Harvard Magazine draws on two articles recently published in the Harvard Library Bulletin. The Treasure column, “Orderly Living,” draws on Professor Jeffrey Hamburger’s study of Houghton Library MS Typ 590 in HLB 21:1-2 (2010, published in July 2011). Hamburger’s essay on a previously unpublished Regimen…

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…

New on OASIS in March

Finding aids for 11 newly cataloged collections, and preliminary box lists for two recent acquisitions have been added to the OASIS database this month, including TV and movie stills, scores from Hasty Pudding Club productions, Gilbert & Sullivan correspondence, and more….