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...Houghton Mifflin Company...
Longfellow was Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard from 1837 to 1854. Houghton Library currently houses many of his papers and manuscripts, including an original copy of "The Children's Hour" and corrected proofs of "Evangeline...
...Morris said the College Library would not add "The Village Blacksmith" to the Houghton collection if the manuscript were too expensive...
...Houghton] would be a very logical place for[the manuscript] to end up," Ravdin added."Personally, I'd hate to have something like thatend up in private hands. Scholars wouldn't haveaccess...
Fueling the debate-and industry gossip mills-are fresh details of Microsoft's hard-nosed business dealings. In a new book called Startup (Houghton Mifflin; $22.95), for example, GO Corp. founder Jerry Kaplan tells how in 1989 his company, hoping to persuade Microsoft to write some software for GO's pen-based computer system, gave Gates and his developers a demonstration of how it worked. Microsoft said it wasn't interested. But two years later, the company unveiled a competing system called Pen Windows that bore an uncanny resemblance to GO's design, even using the same "gestures" to insert...