Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr. amassed the largest collection in the world on mind-altering drugs and their societal impact. After acquiring the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Library of San Francisco in 2001, his ...

The Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library’s main exhibition space, usually resembles a 17th-century sitting room — the walls are robin-egg blue, gold chandeliers hang from the high ceilings, and a ...

competition," Hofer says. "It goes like that. We use our money well." Its high quality does not, of course, allow the Houghton to be complacent; but it does allow it breathing space in which to ponder ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! When Gore Vidal gave his manuscripts, notes, and letters to Harvard in 2002, Houghton ...

The Houghton Library on the Harvard campus is awesome, is what I'm saying. And now it's looking for a little love. From, and for ... Wikipedia. Yesterday, John Overholt, Houghton's Curator of Early ...

Houghton Library is where Harvard keeps its literary treasures: rare books and manuscripts and correspondence of the great and famous. “New Acquisitions,” a small exhibition devoted to recent ...

CAMBRIDGE — Exhibition titles don’t come more alliteratively straightforward than “Big Books, Tiny Tomes,” which runs at Harvard’s Houghton Library through Aug. 9. Houghton is the university’s ...