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Now in Print: Reconstructing the Personal Library of William James by Ermine Algaier

12 December 2019 no responses Posted by HL Blog Staff Houghton Fellows News

A hearty congratulations to 2017–2018 Houghton Visiting Fellow Ermine L. Algaier IV, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Monmouth College in Illinois, who recently published his book, Reconstructing the Personal Library of William James: Markings and Marginalia from the Harvard Library Collection (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Dr. Algaier provides a comprehensive account Read More

A Year on Fellowship at Houghton Library

26 November 2019 no responses Posted by HL Blog Staff Houghton Fellows

In a recent post, we encouraged scholars who live a distance from Cambridge to apply for a Houghton Visiting Fellowship. The post has all the details, but the long and short of it is that winners receive $3,600 to support at least four weeks (not necessarily consecutively) of research at Houghton. Fellows get to really Read More

Accessing Archives in the 19th-Century Atlantic World

6 February 2019 Posted by HL Blog Staff Houghton Fellows Research

By Derek Kane O’Leary I have everywhere found Archivists the least competent of human beings to judge of the character or value of historical papers; and if I had not been favored with the aid of higher powers, both in Paris and London, my enquiries would have been to little purpose. There Archivists look upon Read More

Surprises and Suddenness in Edward Lear

9 January 2019 Posted by HL Blog Staff Houghton Fellows Research

By Noreen Masud, 2018–2019 Houghton Library Visiting Fellow/Eleanor M. Garvey Fellow in Printing and Graphic Arts, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University. She works on topics including aphorisms, culinary leftovers, flatness, and hymns in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Owls and Pussycats going to sea, Old Men with beards full of birds, Pobbles Read More

Beauty and Cliché in an Anonymous French Manuscript Score

12 December 2018 Posted by HL Blog Staff Houghton Fellows Research

By Joseph Gauvreau, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature. Joseph was a summer 2018 Pforzheimer Fellow in Harvard Library. Working closely with Christina Linklater (a Houghton music cataloger and keeper of the Isham Memorial Library in the Loeb Music Library), he reported a number of Harvard’s music manuscript holdings to RISM. Joseph’s essay is published in Read More

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