About Elon Lang

Lang is a lecturer in The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Liberal Arts Humanities programs and a former part-time project archivist in the Archives and Visual Materials Cataloging Department at the Ransom Center. He has a PhD in Medieval English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, with a background in medieval and early modern English paleography and interests in digital editing and collaborative publication. He was employed to assist in the processing of the Carl H. Pforzheimer collection of English manuscripts from 2012–2014.

April 3, 2014 - Elon Lang

Collection of diplomat’s seventeenth-century newsletters reveal insights into early English history and statecraft

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: digital collections, digital humanities, digitization, Earl of Mulgrave, early English manuscripts, English Civil Wars, Folger Shakespare Library, Glorius Revolution, James Winn, Newdigate Newsletters, Pforzheimer, Prince George of Denmark, Prince George of Hanover, Queen Anne, Restoration Period, Sir Joseph Williamson, Sir Richard Bulstrode, statecraft

I must thank you for the chocolate and snuff you intend to send me, if it be perfumed with anything but orange or jessamin [jasmine] flowers, I had rather have plain, for I find all musk etc. hurts my head. William Bridgeman, Clerk to the English Secretary of State, London,… read more

February 3, 2014 - Elon Lang

Letter reveals lessons in seventeenth-century home economics in London

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections Tagged With: digital collections, digital humanities, digitization, John Evelyn, King Charles II, Louis XIV, Manuscripts, Margaret Blagge Godolphin, Mary Evelyn, Pforzheimer collection, Restoration Court, Samuel Pepys, seventeenth-century

According to Mary Evelyn, the wife of John Evelyn, a renowned English intellectual, diarist, and horticulturalist in the late seventeenth century, it cost £313 and 1 shilling to set up a proper upper-class household for eight people in London in 1675. In today’s dollars, the dishes, silver, glasses, linens, and… read more

November 8, 2013 - Elon Lang

New inventory of manuscript collection reveals unprecedented level of detail for scholars of British history

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Carl H. Pforzheimer, Cataloging, Duke of Monmouth’s Rebellion, Edmund Spenser, Esther Inglis, Glorious Revolution of William and Mary, Isaac Penington, John Donne, John Evelyn, John Locke, Joseph Williamson, King Charles I, Manuscripts, Margaret Askew Fell Fox, Oliver Cromwell, Queen Anne, Queen Elizabeth I, Research, Rye House Plot, Samuel Pepys, Shepheardes Calendar, Sir Richard Bulstrode, Sir Walter Raleigh, Whitelocke Bulstrode, William Congreve

The Ransom Center recently published a new finding aid for one of its richest collections of early manuscripts: the Carl H. Pforzheimer collection of English manuscripts. The bulk of the manuscripts were acquired in 1986, along with 1,100 other rare early printed editions of English literature that form the Pforzheimer… read more