Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Herman W Liebert librarian emeritus of Yale's Binecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. "He [Bond] inherited a wonderful resource and had a very, very difficult act to follow, but he has lived up to the challenge[Houghton] is one of the finest collections in the world because ofWilliam Bond...
...find a collection like this anywhere else, "he says of the keats room, where more than two-thirds of the poet's letters and manuscripts are kept "That sounds like boasting, but you hit that a lot talking about Houghton or the Harvard Library...
...points to the portraits of famous literary figures on the walls,distinguishing between the originals and the careful reproductions."We know where the rest are," he says of those masterpieces Houghton lacks, adding without hesitation, "And I trust they will come to us eventually; like all other things it is a matter of time, but they will come...
...appreciation of his work, Harvard has established a William H BondBook Fund which Bond himself neglects to bring up. "It is is very dear to his heart, I think," says feng, "but Mr. Bond is too modest to talk about it."No successor has been named to head Houghton, but a nationwide search inunder...
...William Bond teachers with everything be does," Says Roger Stoddard,assistant librarian at Houghton "Someone with his experience with a collection can help a reader in ways that defy filing and catalogues...