http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog The world's greatest Samuel Johnson collection, one book at a time. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:52:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've given several tours of the Hyde Collection exhibition since it opened in August, and HCL News has just done a story about the last of these, accompanied by a picture in which you can see me attempting to point out something without putting smudgy fingerprints on the display case. ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/11/05/last-chance-to-see/ My colleague Kathryn James's exhibition on Johnson and Boswell, "Really As It Was: Writing the Life of Samuel Johnson" will be on display at Yale's Beinecke Library until mid-December, and has an excellent online version as well. The Beinecke is of course the home of the tremendous Boswell Papers collection, ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/10/26/johnson-at-300-at-yale/ Today we unveiled the newest blog at Houghton, the aptly named Houghton Library Blog. Alongside the Catablog and the Modern Books and Manuscripts Blog, the new blog will cover new acquisitions, events, and interesting discoveries throughout the all the departments at Houghton. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/10/23/a-new-member-of-the-family/ You'll need to have access to the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies to read it, but Maureen Mulvihill's report on the Paula Peyraud sale, at which we made a number of purchases, is now online. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/10/16/peyraud-rundown/ My fellow Mary Hyde enthusiast Jerry Morris has just posted a great story about finding a used copy of Bate's biography of Johnson with a triple play of Johnsonian provenance, in a rather out-of-the-way place. In addition, he's posted scans of some photos of Mary, including a scandalous photo I'd ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/10/13/just-wild-about-mary/ In honor of the tercentenary, BBC Radio 4 is airing a series of programs on Samuel Johnson, including a dramatization of Boswell's Life, and an appreciation of Johnson by current London mayor Boris Johnson. Act now, because the programs will stay on the website for only a week after ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/09/09/johnson-on-the-air/ There's a nice article in the new Harvard Gazette about our just-completed symposium Johnson at 300, and it provides me with an opportunity to thank all of those who contributed to making it so tremendously enjoyable and productive, most especially my colleagues Tom Horrocks and Peter Accardo, who worked tirelessly ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/09/03/a-very-successful-symposium/ Two very big pieces of news today: both the physical and virtual versions of my exhibition A Monument More Durable Than Brass are open to visitors today. If you can, come by our Edison & Newman room anytime Houghton Library is open to see some of the collection's greatest treasures ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/08/26/a-monument-al-grand-opening/ I just had the great pleasure of opening the first carton of the published catalog for my exhibition, and it's a pretty sharp-looking publication if I do say so myself. It won't officially go on sale from Harvard University Press until February, but if you happen to be coming to ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/08/21/the-new-catalog-is-here/ I've mentioned before our substantial collection of books annotated by Johnson's friend and biographer Hester Thrale Piozzi. I'm tremendously pleased that Harvard's Open Collections Program will be digitizing a number of volumes from that collection as part of a project on readers and evidence of their reading. The collection is ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/08/19/one-longs-to-say-something/