Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.
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Arrival of Dame Edith Evans papers
The Harry Ransom Center has recently acquired a large collection of papers from the late actress Dame Edith Evans (1888-1976) from the estate of Bryan Forbes, who was Evans’s biographer and directed in her in a number of projects
Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez
![The cover of the carbon typescript of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No One Writes to the Colonel], 1957.](https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/files/2015/10/General-cover-768x1015.jpg)
Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. Alguna vez Gabriel García Márquez comentó que creía que la principal razón por la cual los escritores leen las novelas de otros, era para aprender cómo las escribieron. Para el laureado con este Premio Nobel los libros tenían una… read more