http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog The world's greatest Samuel Johnson collection, one book at a time. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:38:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A discussion on C18-L alerted me to a recently published novel called The Brothers Boswell, in which James Boswell's criminally insane brother John stalks Boswell and Johnson, planning to murder them with a pair of golden pistols. The Washington Post has a review here, and the New York Times has ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/11/21/james-boswell-international-man-of-mystery/ I don't know much about this little clipping I found in the back of a copy of Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes, but I think it's safe to say the author was not a fan of Johnson. Character of Dr. Johnson, Written After His Death A Bard, whom Apollo had never inspir'd; A Courtier, who ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/11/19/if-you-cant-say-something-nice/ via the Exlibris email list: The Collector as Artist: Lady Eccles and Oscar Wilde. John Stokes Monday 11 January 2010 at 18.00 at the British Library Conference Centre 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. Taking Lady Eccles' magnificent donation of material relating to Oscar Wilde and his circle to the British Library as its ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog/2009/11/18/mary-hydes-wilde-side/ 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. UPDATE: The PDF of the report is now available here. 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/