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Nothing was done to effect the transfer, though, until retired Houghton keeper of printed books James Walsh happened to visit Vidal’s villa outside of Ravello, Italy, on a trip to the country...
...This is a big acquisition for us and we’re very happy about it,” said Leslie A. Morris, head curator of manuscripts at Harvard’s Houghton Library, where the University keeps rare books and manuscripts...
...papers of Gore Vidal will be part of a world-renowned collection that includes the papers of American writers from Henry Adams and Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, Louisa May Alcott and John Ashberry,” said William P. Stoneman, Fearrington librarian of Houghton, in a press release...
...history of race relations in America, there are quite a few blank spaces. Here are two books determined to fill them in. Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy, by James S. Hirsch (Houghton Mifflin; 358 pages; $25), is a quietly devastating account of Tulsa's two-day convulsion of blood and of the struggle years later to return the riot to living memory through a commission of inquiry. Philip Dray's At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Random House; 528 pages; $35) is a powerful history of a practice so common...
With Stone’s retirement, James R. “Jamie” Houghton ’58, the next-most senior member of the Corporation, will become its new senior fellow...