Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collection of the papers of one of America's greatest poetesses--Emily Dickinson--has been opened to literary scholars by the University. They are currently housed at the Houghton Library. Coinciding with the opening of the collection, Thomas H. Johnson, head of the English department at the Lawrenceville School, has published a three-volume edition of her poems through The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press...
...Houghton Library for rare books was opened, complete with temperature and humidity control. In 1945, in response to a hint that Metcalf had dropped at a dinner some years before, Manhattan Financier Thomas W. Lamont (1892) gave Harvard $1,500,000 for a new open-stack undergraduate library. Meanwhile, Metcalf helped to set up the New England Deposit Library, in which colleges and universities in the Greater Boston area store their little-used books, and the Farmington Plan by which colleges and universities buy foreign publications in common, thus covering the foreign field thoroughly while avoiding wasteful duplications...
...YEARS OF THE CITY (567 pp.)-George R. Stewart-Houghton Mifflin...
CAPTAIN COOK AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC (269 pp.)-John Gwyfher-Houghton Mifflin...
...connection with the reading, Houghton Library has arranged a special Eliot display of first editions and manuscripts...