Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tangible Harvard memorial to Thomas Hardy has taken the form of an exhibit now on view in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. Early editions of Hardy's works, letters and photographs constitute the bulk of the collection...
Four Christmas exhibits are to be shown in the Treasure, Room of Widener Library this week. They are a collection of various editions of Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carols," including one copy of the first edition, and also a letter written to Charles Sumner by Dickens. There is also a collection of books printed by Bruce Rogers, and some Christmas cards from the Merrymount Press. Completing the exhibit is a recent book containing the prologue which was read at the opening of the theatre of Professor G. P. Baker '87 at Yale...
Last spring a book was given to the Library inscribed "C. C. Felton From his affectionate Friend Charles Dickens. New Years Day 1844." The Library possesses in the Sumner collection a letter, which is now also on exhibit, written to Charles Summer in March, 1842, in which Dickens says, "I miss Felton sadly. Half the pleasure of my world, as Charles Lamb says, has gone with him. I would give, I hardly know what I would not give, to have him at No 1 Devonshire Terrace, York gate, Regents Park, London; for I have a sincere affection...
...copies of this edited were printed, in garamond Italic type with decorations in red. Miss Lowell also collected Christmas cards from the Merrymount Press. These wood engravings by Ruzicika, who is considered the best carver of coloured wood prints in the United States, are a feature of the exhibit...
...Langdon Warner '03 who is in charge of this exhibit made the following statements to the CRIMSON regarding Chinese...