Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William H. Bond first arrived at Harvard as a graduate student in English literature, he had but one thing on this mind find Arber's edition of the Registers of the Stationer's Company of London...
Long familiar with the book from his undergraduate research at Haverford College Bond wanted to hold the 17th century equivalent of a copyright registry in his own hands and examine the first official reference to a playwright named William Shakespeare. "I had run across so many notations mentioning the volume," he recalls, "and then to actually have it in front of me-that was the wonderful thing about Widener and about Harvard...
Perhaps more than any other scholar at the University, William Bond appreciates the significance of an extraordinary book-not just for the ideas it contains, but also for the way it appeared to those who first read it, for its significance as a specific and tangible piece of history. It will thus be some what difficult for him to pass on his vast and prestigious collection when he retires tomorrow as librarian of Houghton Library after 36 years of service to the Harvard Library system...
...decades, Bond says, he has spent no more than 40 uninterrupted minutes at a time working on his own projects. "It is the curse of the librarian's life doing other people's research, never spending a very long time on any one thing," he explains, smiling. "It leaves you scatterbrained as a result...
...complete a 10-year excursion into the life and times of Thomas Hollis V. A member of the family for whom the yard dormitory is named, Hollis led a campaign to restock the Harvard Library after it was entirely destroyed in the famous Massachusetts Hall fire of 1764. Bond decided to track down as many books as possible from the Holliscollection, which over the centuries have become lost amidst the millions of volumes Harvard owns...