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...YOUNG HITLER I KNEW (298 pp.) -August Kubizek-Houghton Mifflin...
...application of the newly-acquired Dylan Thomas manuscripts in Houghton Library to the published text of Sir John's Hill has been the magazine's most valuable critical contribution to date. In a short essay in the first issue, Audience editor Ralph Maud shows how the manuscripts give a new insight on Thomas' process of word choice in a few lines of the poem. His critical remarks are specifically directed and clearly stated, and the piece is of greater concrete value to Thomas scholarship than a more pretentious approach might allow...
When an exhibition of some original manuscripts of Dylan Thomas opens later this spring at Houghton Library, the Welsh poet will take his place beside Harvard's first charter and Edwin Booth's last cigar. Within the walls of the red-brick, air-tight, thief-proof building are not only one of the world's best known collections of rare books, but also University documents and historical curios...
Many of the library's oldest manuscripts date from before 1500, while others include first editions of Thomas Wolfe, Herman Melville, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton's theatre collection is one of its most unusual attractions--even holding the answer to "whether Macbeth should be played in quilts." A rare series of seventeenth century American almanacs, precursors to Poor Richard, are especially valuable and amusing. Among the wise saying are the following: 'All men like money; some their wives," and "He that marries for love has good nights but sorry days." The world's largest series of books and manuscripts...
...became clear that such a collection demanded a separate building, and in 1940 President Conant dug the first spadeful of earth from a hole that was to become the new rare-book library. When it was opened three months after the start of World War II, Houghton was described as "Fire-proof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The age of nuclear weapons may have increased Houghton's vulnerability, but it has not diminished the value of a collection that has withstood three hundred years in the Yard...