A treatment by the Ransom Center’s conservation team has made an enormous 10-foot-wide map drawn by Giovanni Battista Piranesi accessible to a larger audience.
The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the archive of Peter Orlovsky, Beat Generation poet and longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg.
Ransom Center Humanities Coordinator Gregory Curtis writes about a piece of correspondence in the archive, revealing how a misunderstanding began between Allen Ginsberg and Diana Trilling.
The exhibitions “Literature and Sport” and “Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive” are now open at the Harry Ransom Center!
In case you missed it, learn all about Rene Belbenoit, prison escape artist, butterfly enthusiast, and storyteller. A recently cataloged manuscript of his autobiography tells the story of of this “incorrigible” Frenchman through his own words and illustrations.
A letter written by Mark Twain in 1900 is addressed to a recipient mere blocks from where the Harry Ransom Center stands today. Learn more about who Mark Twain knew in Austin.
This week, “From the Outside In” shares the story of Samuel Beckett and his novel Watt. This doodle, featured as a window etching in the Ransom Center’s south atrium, is from the second of seven manuscript notebooks for the novel.
Image courtesy of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.
Émilie de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet, may be best known for being Voltaire’s lover, but she also authored the first French translation and commentary of Isaac Newton’s” Principia,” a work that is still considered to be the standard translation in France.
This week, “From the Outside In” shares the story of how Eadweard Muybridge’s photograph, “Horse in Motion,” helped prove that all four hooves leave the ground when a horse is running.
Caption: Eadweard Muybridge. “Horse in Motion,” Photography collection, Harry Ransom Center.
The Harry Ransom Center has awarded more than 65 fellowships for 2013-2014. Learn more about the recipients and their topics.
René Belbenoit: Prison escape artist, butterfly enthusiast, and storyteller. A recently cataloged manuscript of his autobiography tells the story of of this “incorrigible” Frenchman through his own words and illustrations.
