March 6, 2014, Filed Under: Art, Books + ManuscriptsCorrespondence sheds light on illustrations for articles by landscape design critic Mariana Van Rensselaer Biographer Judith Major’s recent book Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer: A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age (University of Virginia Press) highlights the work of the pioneering landscape critic, and Major quotes from one of the letters in the Ransom Center’s Elizabeth and Joseph Pennell papers for her book. Joseph Pennell… read more
February 25, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Film, Research + TeachingStanley et Anthony: A correspondence between Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess On the surface, it is a correspondence between friends: Did you read the book I sent? Did you like it? Generic questions for most, perhaps, but the inquiry was from Stanley Kubrick, and the questions concerning Arthur Schnitzler’s book Traumnovelle were addressed to Anthony Burgess. A series of letters… read more
February 3, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital CollectionsLetter reveals lessons in seventeenth-century home economics in London According to Mary Evelyn, the wife of John Evelyn, a renowned English intellectual, diarist, and horticulturalist in the late seventeenth century, it cost £313 and 1 shilling to set up a proper upper-class household for eight people in London in 1675. In today’s dollars, the dishes, silver, glasses, linens, and… read more
