Cataloging has recently been completed on the Harvard Theatre Collection’s Tennessee Williams Additional Papers, 1946-1983, ( MS Thr 550.) Details can be found in the finding aid created by senior manuscripts cataloger Bonnie B. Salt.
These papers join a wealth of Tennessee Williams material at the Houghton Library and the Harvard Theatre Collection, most notably the [...]
Houghton’s Technical Services Department today announced that it had added its 2000th finding aid to the OASIS database, Harvard’s online catalog of archival and manuscript collections. The Mary M. Engel collection of “filleuls de guerre” letters is a collection of letters from World War I soldiers to their “godmother” and pen pal, Mary Engel. For [...]
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 [...]
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 (MS [...]
