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rare book and manuscript curator, occasionally other things too 📍Cambridge, MA

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bye bye July! a slideshow some ‘fits and friends from the month 🎊

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🌈 it's love!! held with lonely hands!! 🪽

sending you all the best, in love & in pride & in wrath (of which we need all)

s w i p e for june in review 🫶 & thank you to all who made it gorgeous 💞 an honor to be in community & to be held by friendship!! 💖

deck: tarot for all ages

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thank you for your service, June 🫡
very lucky to have all these dreamy days filled beloved babes

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Absolutely enchanted by the exhibition catalog for “Thanks for Typing” at @houghtonlibrary, curated by @cejacobson and @dalestinchcomb. 😍 Feeling inspired to dust off my Olympia!

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Back in September of 2024, Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska visited Harvard and gave Harvard Library three war-damaged books: a children’s book by Oleksandr (Sashko) Dermanskyi; an autobiography by Pavlo Belianskyi; and a novel translated from English to Ukrainian by Heather Gudenkauf. The books were rescued from a ruined warehouse of the Faktor Druk printing house in Kharkiv, which was struck by a missile in May 2024.

They’ve recently come back from Preservation Services and are available to researchers in the reading room (as specimens only).

In honor of #PreservationWeek, Christine Jacobson @cejacobson, Associate Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, discusses their importance to our collection, and Katherine Beaty @katicadillacycle, Book Conservator for Special Collections at the Weissman Preservation Center @harvardpreservation, shares about her work on the books.

Special thanks to @huriharvard for providing Ukrainian-language captions!

#BookConservation #PreservationWeek2026 #HarvardPreservation #HarvardUkrainianResearchInstitute #NewAcquisitions #HoughtonLibrary #HarvardLibrary #Harvard

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Pavel Pashtet Belianskyi (b. 1977), Sashko Dermanskyi (b. 1976), Heather Gudenkauf, and Vivat Publishing. Books salvaged from Factor-Druk printing house, 2023–2024. MS Ukrainian 1. Gift of the Embassy of Ukraine to the United States of America, 2026.

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“Thanks for Typing: Women’s Type Labor in Literature and the Arts” closes tomorrow! Thanks to those who typed us notes on our Olympia typewriter.

➡️ Swipe to read some of them.

#ClosingSoon #ThanksForTyping #Women #Labor #HoughtonLibrary #HarvardLibrary First slide of the carousel with an angled photo of a salmon pink Olympia typewriter with the exhibition letterhead inserted.

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#OnThisDay Vladimir Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1899. He owed much of his career to his wife, Véra, who was always his first reader, confidant, contract negotiator, and, crucially, expert typist. Learn more about Véra and other typewriting wives in our exhibition, "Thanks for Typing," on view through May 1, 2026.

#Birthday #OTD #VladimirNabokov #VeraNabokov #ThanksForTyping #Women #Labor #HoughtonLibrary #HarvardLibrary

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1, 2, 4 and 5) Images courtesy of Carl Mydans, The LIFE Picture Collection, and Getty, 1958.

3) Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977). “Happy Birthday”: pencil sketch, about 1960–1977. MS Russ 140. Gift of Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation, 2017.

6) Véra Nabokov (1902–1999). Zhivago: typescript notes, undated. MS Russ 140. Gift of Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation, 2017.

7) First edition of Lolita, 1955. First slide with a photo of Vladimir sitting in the passenger seat of a car and a white text block superimposed at the bottom.

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#OnThisDay Henry James was born in Manhattan, New York in 1843. He worked closely with two typists in his late career who had profound impacts on his writing process and style. Learn more about Mary and Theodora, as well as other important literary typists, in our exhibition, "Thanks for Typing," on view through May 1, 2026.

#Birthday #OTD #HenryJames #MaryWeld #TheodoraBosanquet #ThanksForTyping #Women #Labor #HoughtonLibrary #HarvardLibrary

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2) Mary Weld in the Watchbell Street Studio bookbindery, Rye, around 1901–1904. MS Eng 1579 (36). Louis J. Appell Junior Fund for British Civilization in the Harvard College Library and the Bayard Livingston and Kate Gray Kilgour Fund, 2003.

4) Portrait of Theodora Bosanquet. MS Eng 1213.8. Amy Lowell fund and Henry James royalties, 1963.

6) Henry James (1843–1916) and Theodora Bosanquet. The Portrait of a Lady: manuscript, around 1906. MS Am 1237.17. Norton Perkins Fund, 1943.

7) Theodora Bosanquet (1880–1961). Henry James at Work. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927. AC85.J2335.Y924bb. Amy Lowell Trust, 1963. First slide with a three-quarter sepia portrait of Henry James with glasses and a white text block superimposed at the bottom.

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march was a crazy little guy!!
this month’s morale was sponsored by fame is a gun by addison rae 😌

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🪽 oh we're locking in 🪽

s w i p e for march in review!! 🍀 here to say that community is the magic!!! ✨

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Emily Dickinson’s first collection of poetry was published in 1890, four years after her death. How did it find its way into print? Meet her posthumous editor and amanuensis, Mabel Loomis Todd. Learn more about Mabel and other important literary typists in our exhibition, “Thanks for Typing,” on view through May 1, 2026.

#EmilyDickinson #MabelLoomisTodd #Poetry #ThanksForTyping #Women #Labor #HoughtonLibrary #HarvardLibrary

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3) Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). “All overgrown by cunning moss”: autograph manuscript, around 1860. MS Am 1118.3 (72a). Gift of Gilbert H. Montague, Class of 1901, in happy memory of Amy Montague, 1950.

4–6) Mabel Loomis Todd (1856–1932). Transcription of Emily Dickinson’s “All overgrown by cunning moss,” around 1896. Loan from the Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives & Special Collections.

8) Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911). Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. Lavinia Dickinson’s copy. EDR 471. Gift of Gilbert H. Montague, Class of 1901, in happy memory of Amy Montague, 1950.

11) Mabel Loomis Todd at her typewriter, by unknown photographer, around 1930–1932. Image courtesy of Yale University Library. First slide with portrait of Emily in the upper left corner and Mabel in the lower right corner, each with accompanying text.

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Great curator talk at #thanksfortyping followed by a related classic movie

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