Day: July 1, 2016

Front facade of Houghton Library

William King Richardson, Part III: Mischievous Billy Richardson

It is good to see good work being done by colleagues on a great collection.  But let’s not be too solemn about the collector and the collected, no matter his degrees and trophies.  After all, he wasn’t. “Billy” traveled in certain social circles and had a lot of fun in doing so.  Edith Wharton, the…