February 22, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #2 Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, eds., The Little Review, June 1918. Harry Ransom Center Book Collection. # 2: The “American Number” of The Little Review, June 1918 by CLARE HUTTON This is the second article in a series devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported author… read more
February 1, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #1 Image: Copy number 17 of the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, signed by the author (Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922). Carlton Lake Collection, (PR 6019 O9 U4 1922, copy 3), Harry Ransom Center. #1: Copy number 17 of the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, signed by the author,… read more
December 6, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1A Rare Gift: First-edition Principia highlights extraordinary collection The Ransom Center recently received a generous donation from the James M. Vaughn, Jr., Vaughn Foundation Fund of important books in the history of mathematics. The earliest volumes supplement the Center’s existing strength in early materials on the history of science and mathematics, and others productively expand the range of… read more