May 1, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingMuddy bootprints on Himmler’s copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf This week marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. I grew up in Holland where the fifth of May is celebrated as “Bevrijdingsdag,” named for the liberation from German occupation that my father, who was 14 years old in 1945 when he stood by the side… read more
April 29, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, ConservationPforzheimer library receives proactive conservation assessment In 1986 when the Ransom Center acquired the Carl H. Pforzheimer library of early English literature, with books dating from 1475 to 1700, the book world gasped. The Pforzheimer library was the outstanding private collection of early English books available, and the acquisition of this exceptional private library of carefully… read more
April 20, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Research + TeachingLetter in Sunwise Turn collection sheds light on forgotten artist/daredevil Among the papers of Mary Mowbray Clarke included in the Sunwise Turn archive is Ms. Mowbray Clarke’s personal correspondence. The major portion of these letters span the years 1905–1917, from about the time she married John Mowbray Clarke up to the opening of the Sunwise Turn bookshop in partnership with… read more
