January 19, 2022, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Featured1Sheet music composed for Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘A Dream Within A Dream’ American writer, poet, editor and critic Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809. The Ransom Center’s Edgar Allan Poe collection contains several manuscript works and about 70 letters written by Poe, and works about him.
December 16, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Curator’s Introduction: Women and the Making of James Joyce’s Ulysses by CLARE HUTTON Introduction by Gregory Curtis Giving Ulysses to the World February 2, 2022, will mark one hundred years since the publication of a book that changed literature forever. Irish novelist James Joyce’s pioneering modernist novel, Ulysses, was a labor to write and more so, perhaps, to publish.
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
