April 21, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsWhen $4, $40, and $400 all count the same Like many undergraduate students, my first visit to the Harry Ransom Center was as an exhibition visitor. A friend and I, both fresh-faced freshmen, stumbled upon
April 21, 2016, Filed Under: ConservationSay it with flowers Princess Marthe Bibesco was the quintessential Napoleonic cosmopolite—worldly, literary, political, and modern
April 13, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsDiscovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde This post was written in collaboration with author and independent scholar Thomas Wright. Oscar Wilde was many things: dramatist, dandy, essayist, lecturer, novelist, poet—and he was very much a bibliophile.