[This post adapted from Kenneth Carpenter's Reader's Choice exhibition in the Houghton Library ]
The largest component of Houghton Library’s notable bookplate collection was the gift of Winward Prescott, class of 1909. Prescott’s interest in bookplates was clearly lifelong, for as early as 1914 he published a bibliography of bookplate literature, which he revised and republished [...]
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 [...]
“Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200″ has won the 2009 Leab Award for Best Online Exhibition from the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. All of us at Houghton extend our congratulations to the Modern Books and Manuscripts Department, guest exhibition curator Christoph Irmscher, and [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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.
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 [...]
