http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog The world's greatest Samuel Johnson collection, one book at a time. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:36:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm very pleased to announce a major milestone in our project to digitize our Samuel Johnson correspondence. All 750 Johnson letters in MS Hyde 1 have now been completed and made accessible to the scholarly community. This last section includes a number of important Johnson correspondents, including his stepdaughter Lucy ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2008/03/25/keep-those-cards-and-letters-coming/ The progress on the Samuel Johnson correspondence digitization project continues, with another 146 letters to 32 different correspondents now available. This batch includes such notables as Bennet Langton, Edmond Malone, Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Hannah More, and Thomas Percy. But there are two highlights that I am especially eager to point ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2008/02/15/more-johnson-correspondence/ The Hyde Collection contains half of the surviving letters of Samuel Johnson (in fact the definitive edition of Johnson's correspondence, edited by Bruce Redford and published by Princeton University Press in 1992, was known as "the Hyde Edition"). I'm very pleased to announce that thanks to the hard work of ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2008/01/23/your-most-humble-servant/ Remember, this week is your last chance to see the exhibit. We'll be closed after Friday until the New Year, when I have to take it down. The first volume of the Decline and Fall was originally planned for a run of 500 copies, but halfway through printing advance demand was ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2007/12/19/the-luminous-historian-part-iii/ As I mentioned last time, Edward Gibbon had a very large personal library, which he kept track of with a then very modern device: the card catalog. Though most of the catalog now resides in the British Library, we're fortunate enough to have one of his cards which, like the ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2007/12/02/the-luminous-historian-part-ii/ Ken Gewertz of the Harvard University Gazette has written a very nice article about my Edward Gibbon exhibit which is now available online. Sadly you'll have to locate a print copy to see the picture of me, or more specifically, my left hand and a bit of my favorite tie. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2007/11/15/luminous-historian-makes-the-news/ This week I put up my first exhibit as Assistant Curator: "Edward Gibbon: The Luminous Historian". Christopher Jones, a professor in the Classics Department is teaching a course this semester on Gibbon, the renowned author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. You'll have to ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2007/11/04/the-luminous-historian-part-i/ Bloomsbury auction house is selling this amazing Rowlandson watercolor of an early 19th-century book auction on 10/24. Anybody got $40,000-60,000 to lend me? http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2007/10/22/going-once-going-twice-sold-2/ Clearly the second-greatest work of literature whose title starts "Boswell's Life of ..." http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2007/10/08/discoveries-in-the-back-stacks-part-ii/ I moved offices last week, and in the process of cleaning up and putting things away, I found a few interesting odds and ends that show how truly thorough the Hydes were as collectors. It looks like this calendar will be right again in 2010, but don't worry, I won't tear ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2007/09/30/discoveries-in-the-back-stacks-part-i/