[Thanks to Project Music Cataloger Christina Linklater for contributing this post.] In 1794, a governmental decree led to the foundation of a new music publishing firm in Paris. The company’s full name, Magasin de musique à l’usage des fêtes nationales, indicates that this was a practical enterprise, one of many new initiatives brought forth as Read More

The Houghton Library and the Harvard Divinity School join in commemorating the centenary of the death of Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James.  Linda Simon, biographer of William James, will deliver the annual William James Lecture on Wednesday, October 27th, at 5.15 P.M. in the Lamont Forum Room. Simon’s talk, “William James’s Transitions,” looks at Read More

One of the newly announced 2010 MacArthur Fellows, Nicholas Benson, has a special connection to Houghton Library: he created the beautiful slate sign that hangs over the entrance to the Edison and Newman Room, for its dedication in 2005. Benson is a third-generation stone carver, and his father carved the sign marking Blodgett Court, just Read More

On the 100th anniversary of his death, Houghton celebrates the life and work of William James with a major physical and online exhibition, “Life is in the Transitions”: William James, 1842-1910, guest curated by Linda Simon, Professor of English at Skidmore College. Houghton was also host to one day of a four-day symposium entitled “In Read More

The new Harvard Gazette has a full story on our exhibition on T.S. Eliot’s time at Harvard, mentioned here previously. The exhibition will be up through June 26th.