[Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, for contributing this post] Newly digitized items at Houghton include a significant array of material from manuscript collections, such as the Robert Gould Shaw papers, Mary Moody Emerson’s Almanac, the letters of Christophe Daniel Ebeling letters to William Bentley, research materials from the Charles S. Peirce collection, charmingly Read More

[Thanks to Christina Davis, Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room, for contributing this post.] On the occasion of our 80th anniversary, the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University is proud to announce the creation of a new website that offers scholars and poetry-readers worldwide the opportunity to encounter rare and heretofore inaccessible recordings from its Read More

Finding aids for 7 newly cataloged collections, and a preliminary box list for one recent acquisition, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including science fiction fanzines and art, and Amy Lowell’s collection of literary and historical manuscripts.

[Thanks to Andrea Cawelti, Ward Project Music Cataloger, for contributing this post.] John Milton Ward, William Powell Mason Professor of Music emeritus at Harvard University, recently donated to Houghton a large collection of full opera scores, primarily of French origin. While cataloging a printed score of Rodolphe Kreutzer’s Jadis et aujourd’hui, I discovered nestled within Read More

Houghton Library is pleased to announce two events for the fall term. On Monday, October 24th, 5:30 p.m., Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian at Princeton University, will deliver the 94th Winship Lecture in the Lamont Library, Forum Room. Dr. Needham’s topic will be: “The Gutenberg Bible from Past to Present” He will include an overview extending Read More