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Guy Davenport: "Finally, he was ready to let himself rest..."
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August 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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#ChildrensLiterature #ChildrensBooks #KidLit
#BookHistory #SpecColls #RareBooks
#WordsAndWonder #RansomCenter 🗃️📜📚
aarontpratt.bsky.social Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social · Mar 25
JUST IN: the make-your-own hornbook coasters we designed for the @ransomcenter.bsky.social's newest exhibition, Words and Wonder: Rediscovering Children's Literature.
March 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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#ICYMI: My @ransomcenter.bsky.social colleagues marked my arrival with a blog post!

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#RansomCenter 📚🗃️📜
Benjamin Gross Appointed Associate Director of Research Services at the Harry Ransom Center
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May 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Great piece by @aarontpratt.bsky.social on the long lives of First Folios - #bookhistory
#earlymodern

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December 2, 2023 at 8:20 AM
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"An archive takes you right to the heart of the literary creation; it makes for an emotional connection that anyone who loves literature will understand." -Ian McEwan (born #OnThisDay in 1948), whose papers can be consulted @ransomcenter.bsky.social.

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#booksky 🗃️📜📚
Ian McEwan photographed during the 2011 Paris Book Festival. (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McEwan#/media/File:Salon_du_livre_de_Paris_2011_-_Ian_McEwan_-_003.jpg)
June 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
jfkane.bsky.social
FONSECA is about a few months in the life of the author Penelope Fitzgerald, when she went to Mexico in 1952 for mysterious reasons. My work on the novel started in earnest when I went to the Harry Ransom Center in 2018 to look at her notebooks. Thank you, @ransomcenter, for making it so easy.
January 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
I'm not surprised that Robert Redford came to visit @ransomcenter.bsky.social in 2011. After all, the Center is home to Woodward & Bernstein's #Watergate papers.

What I didn't know until today is that he drew a little cartoon of himself after signing our authors' door!

#RIP #RobertRedford 🗃️📜
Photo of Robert Redford signing the authors' door at the Harry Ransom Center by Pete Smith. Originally posted on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOrCTz3DTX0/?img_index=1 Robert Redford's self-portrait, drawn beneath his signature on the Ransom Center's authors' door. (Originally posted on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/ransomcenter/3723088168670375159/)
September 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
E.E. Cummings, American writer & artist best known for his modernist free-form #poetry, was born #OnThisDay in 1894.

@ransomcenter.bsky.social has a substantial collection of his manuscripts & artwork, including this mythologically inspired doodle: sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...

#BookSky 🗃️📜
Portrait of e.e. cummings (1953) New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Albertin, Walter, photographer. Wikipedia
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"Caroline Herschel [born #OnThisDay 1750] is remarkable not only for what she achieved but also for what she overcame."

Today's #histSTM & #WomenInSTEM afternoon read: An interview w/novelist John Pipkin about the Herschel Family Papers @ransomcenter.bsky.social.

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Portrait of Caroline Herschel Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel#/media/File:1829_Melchior_Gommar_Tieleman,_%C3%96lgem%C3%A4lde_Caroline_Herschel_Hannover.tif Paper instrument from the Herschel Family Papers Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin
March 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Exciting news from Austin: @ransomcenter.bsky.social has announced the recipients of its 2025-26 fellowships! Our incoming cohort of 46 scholars will use the Center's collections to pursue a wide range of #humanities projects.

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#histSTM #FellowFriday 🗃️📜📚
Fellowships Awarded to 46 scholars
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May 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Exciting news from Austin! @ransomcenter.bsky.social has announced the recipients of its 2026-2027 research fellowships! Our incoming cohort consists of 47 scholars who will use the Center's collections to pursue a wide range of #humanities projects.

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#speccolls 📜🗃️
Headshots of the 47 members of the Harry Ransom Center's 2026-2027 fellowships.
May 20, 2026 at 5:08 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Michael Ondaatje, the award-winning poet & novelist, was born in Sri Lanka #OnThisDay in 1943.

@ransomcenter.bsky.social acquired Ondaatje's archive in 2017, which includes this notebook containing the 1st draft of his novel, The English Patient.

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Notebook containing the first draft of Michael Ondaatje’s novel “The English Patient,” 1988. Photo by Pete Smith. Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin
September 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
There's a duck at the end of the rainbow... 🌈🦆

(This photo is from a blog post about a Magnum Photos workshop hosted @ransomcenter.bsky.social in 2016.)

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#photosky #birdsky #duck
Alessandra Sanguinetti. Rainbow and duck. Argentina. Buenos Aires. 2001. © Alessandra Sanguinetti/Magnum Photos. Courtesy Magnum Photos.
January 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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And the journey doesn’t stop here…

The newly conserved scroll is now in Austin, Texas for the exhibition Life and Literacy in Ancient Egypt @ransomcenter (11 April – 2 August 2026), with a version of the exhibition coming to the Rylands in autumn 2027.
Framed sections of the Book of the Dead.
April 20, 2026 at 8:17 AM
tjowens.bsky.social
Congratulations to all 46 scholars awarded research fellowship at the Ransom Center.

Exciting to see the wide range of topics that this cohort is studying. sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...
Fellowships Awarded to 46 scholars
May 6, 2025, Filed Under: Research + Teaching
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May 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Penelope Lively, the author of children's books like The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973) and the Booker Prize-winning novel Moon Tiger (1987), was born on #OnThisDay in 1933.

More info via @ransomcenter.bsky.social: norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin...

#RansomCenter #literature #BritLit #books 🗃️📜📚
Portrait of Penelope Lively (https://penelopelively.co.uk/) Cover of the first edition of Penelope Lively's novel, Moon Tiger (Wikipedia)
March 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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“The first 6 flowers were very easy to chose—but the last 4 were much harder. Not because it is difficult to think of 4 flowers one loves, but because it is difficult to reject others.” -#JaneGoodall in Fleur Cowles's The Flower Game

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Jane Goodall visits United States Mission Uganda on 4 April 2022 Image courtesy of Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall#/media/File:Jane_Goodall_visits_United_States_Mission_Uganda_on_4_April_2022_-_5_(cropped).jpg List detailing participants for Fleur Cowles’s “The Flower Game.” Jane Goodall is the penultimate name listed at the bottom of the right-hand column.
October 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
aarontpratt.bsky.social
Wrote a shortish thing for the Ransom Center Magazine on the history of the First Folio as a collectible and that history's quite literal, physical impact on the Center's three copies of the edition.

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December 1, 2023 at 11:23 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
"I have taken the liberty of directing Murray to send you a copy of my book on the Origin of species..." -Charles #Darwin to John Herschel (Nov. 11, 1859)

(Today you can consult Herschel's copy of the Origin here @ransomcenter.bsky.social!)

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#histSTM #DarwinDay 🗃️📜
Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815–1879), Ch. Darwin, 1868. Albumen print, 28.5 x 22.7 cm. Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Center. Letter from Charles Darwin to Sir John Herschel, dated November 11, 1859. The letter was tucked inside a signed first edition of Darwin’s “Origin of Species.”
February 12, 2026 at 1:39 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
“Everything is true”, he said. “Everything anybody has ever thought.” -Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

(Illustrated dust jackets from @ransomcenter.bsky.social's collection. Follow on IG for more: www.instagram.com/ransomcenter/)

#BookSky #BookHistory
#scifi #PhilipKDick 🗃️📜📚
📕: Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1968). Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, PS 3554 I3 D6. 📙: Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1965). Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, PS 3554 I3 T47. 📗: Philip K. Dick, A Handful of Darkness (London; New York: Rich and Cowan, 1955). Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, PS 3554 I3 H36. 📘: Philip K. Dick, Time Out of Joint (Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1959). Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, PS 3554 I3 T55.
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Did somebody say "Ransom notes"?

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#notebooks #poetry
#BillyCollins #BadPun
Pages from Billy Collins’s journal with notes related to his poem “The Names,” ca. 2002. (Harry Ransom Center)
June 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Some Saturday morning cover art, courtesy of @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Each of these dust jackets was created by graphic designer Alvin Lustig.

For more on Lustig & additional examples of his work, follow @ransomcenter.bsky.social on FB: www.facebook.com/ransomcenter

#booksky #ArtHistory 🗃️📚📜🎨
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New York: New Directions, c1947). Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, PS 3545 I5365 S8. Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, c1946). Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, PQ 2191 F6 E55. Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (New York: New Directions, c1951). Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, PT 2617 E85 S52. James Joyce, Exiles (Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1945). Harry Ransom Center Theater Arts Library Books, PR 6019 O9 E9 1945 HRC-TA.
January 17, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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"This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them...My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."

Wilfred Owen, whose poems captured the horrors of #WWI, was born #OnThisDay in 1893.

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#RansomCenter #poetry 🗃️📜📚
Portrait of Wilfred Owen in uniform (Wikipedia) Book of Verse 94: Wilfred Owen Script by Dylan Thomas Produced by John Arlott [Misc. broadcast details, including recording date 19th Jun., 1946] Announcer: This is London Calling in the Eastern Service of the BBC. We present this evening Book of Verse--Number 94. These programmes, based in general on the poems being studied at Universities in India, are produced by John Arlott. BOOK OF VERSE - Wilfred Owen - by Dylan Thomas. MUSIC [Handwritten note: Howells-Elegy] READER: "This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." [An excerpt from the preface of Wilfred Owen's Poems (1918)] [Composite handwritten and typed manuscript with revisions and annotations, and mimeo broadcast script with director's revisions inscribed by Dylan Thomas to John Arlott. From the Dylan Thomas Collection at the Harry Ransom Center: https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll98/id/1573/rec/3]
March 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ecolleary.bsky.social
The performing arts collections here @RansomCenter are vast - dating from the 11th century to the present. I’ve got detailed research guides online (www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/...), but do reach out with any questions you have about the collections (performingarts@hrc.utexas.edu).
October 11, 2023 at 2:32 PM
victoriajane.bsky.social
Oh, yes, it was years ago-- an article I wrote for the @ransomcenter.bsky.social when I was a fellow there (this research is also related to the book I have coming out with Bloomsbury next year). Thank you!
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A Glutton for Books
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March 27, 2026 at 1:34 PM