Cataloging is now complete on our collection of the papers of the influential thinker and Harvard philosophy professor Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000). At over 80 boxes, there is a wealth of information on Quine’s life and work. I might stop by to have a look at Series IIE, “Crank letters sent to Quine” (his…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Exhibition and Symposium
He may be best known as a creator of modern detective fiction, but there is more to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle than Sherlock Holmes. A new exhibition, “Ever Westward’: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in American Culture,” which opened May 5 at Houghton Library, hopes to paint a fuller picture of Doyle’s contributions to world literature,…
Johnson Symposium registration open
We’ve just updated the page for our upcoming symposium Johnson At 300 with the registration form, schedule of events, and hotel information. We’ve got an outstanding lineup of participants, and of course we’ll be opening the first exhibition of the Hyde Collection since it arrived at Houghton. I hope you can join us. via Hyde…
Open Collections Program: Expeditions and Discoveries
The newest in a series of online collections from Harvard University, Expeditions and Discoveries delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953. via Open Collections Program: Expeditions and Discoveries – Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the…
Ashbery Exhibition
In honor of John Ashbery’s receipt of the 2009 Harvard Arts medal, Houghton Library is presenting an exhibition in the Chaucer case from 28 April until 16 May. Entitled, “John Ashbery: A Glimpse of the Archive,” the exhibition features a selection of books, manuscripts, and photographs from the poet’s papers held at Houghton Library. Stop…
Historias para niños mexicanos
Houghton Library has recently acquired turn of the twentieth century children’s stories on the history of Mexico. Details, including images, at the Houghton Modern Books and Manuscripts blog….
Ballets Russes Symposium and Exhibition
Today marks the start of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909-1929: Twenty Years that Changed the World of Art, a symposium and exhibition hosted by the Harvard Theatre Collection. The symposium sessions will be held at the New College Theatre (formerly the Hasty Pudding Club House). The speakers and panelists, coming from a number of fields of…
Martha Dickinson Bianchi papers
The library recently completed the arrangement and cataloging of collections related to Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1866-1943), the niece of Emily Dickinson. Bianchi edited several collections of Emily Dickinson’s work, and wrote two Dickinson biographies. The bulk of the collections are correspondence and compositions related to her work and research into Dickinson. Martha Dickinson Bianchi papers…
Digital Showcase: Blaeu Celestial Gores
In 1951, through the gift of Stephen W. Phillips (Class of 1895) and Curt H. Reisinger (1912), the map collection of the Prince Liechtenstein was purchased and brought to Houghton Library. Among the over 150 wall and sheet maps, for the most part collected by General von Hauslab, there are printed gores for making globes….
From the Accessions Reports, 1941-42
“Of English books printed before 1640 there were added during the year 149 items of which six are unrecorded in the Short-Title Catalogue and seven are unrecorded variants of items listed there. This extraordinary total is mainly due to the generosity of Mr. Harold T. White ’97, and his sister, Mrs. Hugh D. Marshall, who…