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2 unusual facts about Houghton Library


Basque-Icelandic pidgin

Recently, a fourth Basque-Icelandic glossary has been found at the Houghton Library at the Harvard University.

Harvard Review

At the same time, Houghton Library assumed administrative responsibility for the review.


Katherine R. Whitmore

Salinas' love letters to Whitmore from 1932 to 1947, kept at Houghton Library in Harvard University, were published in 2002 as Cartas a Katherine. Whitmore was specialized in Generation of '27 literature, which means she had to teach the poetry written for her to her students.


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Ronald A. Bosco

At UAlbany since 1975 and an editor of the Emerson Papers at Harvard's Houghton Library since 1977, Bosco has lectured and published extensively on Puritan homiletics and poetics, nineteenth-century American intellectual and literary history, and the theory and practice of documentary and textual editing.