Congratulations to Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, for winning this year’s National Book Award for non-fiction for his book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. The Swerve concerns the rediscovery of the philosophical poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), written in the first century BC by Titus [...]
Finding aids for 8 newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including photos and letters of the actors Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Lady Maud Tree, and letters to Harvard President Joseph Willard from his sons.
[Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, for contributing this post] Newly digitized items at Houghton include a significant array of material from manuscript collections, such as the Robert Gould Shaw papers, Mary Moody Emerson’s Almanac, the letters of Christophe Daniel Ebeling letters to William Bentley, research materials from the Charles S. Peirce collection, charmingly [...]
Our largest-ever new digitization post includes a collection of correspondence of Benedict Arnold, manuscripts of Thoreau and Henry James, a collection of early 19th century drawings of English theaters, and much more. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]
Finding aids for 16 newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including programs from Harvard theatricals and the records of an anti-women’s suffrage group.
Images of Mt. Vesuvius, a collection of African-American folk ballads, and a 16th century type specimen are among this month’s newly digitized items. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, for contributing this post.]
Manuscripts by Melville and Mozart, and drawings by Thackeray and Vizetelly, are among this month’s newly digitized items. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]
The newest issue of the Harvard Gazette reports on the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project, and the excitement of two of the Harvard-based project members at locating a previously unrecorded Darwin letter at Houghton.
Arthur Rackham illustrations for Peter Pan, a 13th-century manuscript poem, and a passionate plea from Dorothea Dix are among this month’s newly digitized items. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]
The Fall 2010 issue of Philanthropy magazine includes an article on the 2003 bequest by Mary Hyde, Viscountess Eccles, not just of her unparalleled collection on the life and work of Samuel Johnson and his circle, but also of an endowment that funds the ongoing management and enhancement of the collection.
