The Victor Hugo Papers
Victor Hugo, French novelist and dramatist and author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, was born on this day in 1802. We look back at a 2015 blog post on the John Rylands Library's Special Collections Blog which describes the The Victor Hugo Papers....
Davis to Beddoe: ‘could you assist me in procuring crania?’
The Lives of Letters blog welcomes a guest post from Johanna Parker (Australian National University), relating to the medical correspondence of 19th century medical practitioner and collector J. B. Davis. The majority of my research is focused on analysing...
A letter from Luther
Commend me to your prayers - a blog post by Juliane Simpson from the John Rylands Special Collections blog on a letter from Martin Luther that appears in the library's current Reformation exhibition Related Contact Us +44 (0)...
Digital Humanities approaches to text editing, 2 March 2018
Our second of two workshops this semester is now open for registration via our Google form. This workshop will engage participants in a discussion about the future of Digital Humanities approaches to creating and displaying text editions. Three papers will explore...
Curious find – love letters
One for Valentine’s Day from the archives of the Rylands Special Collections Blog Curious Find - Love LettersToday's Curious Find is a book of real letters that reveal the love story between a man and woman, and told in the lovers' own words. The letters are...
Online catalogue of John Dalton manuscripts
"Correspondence is not a major feature of the collection. Dalton’s own letters tend to be domestic in nature and reveal little of his scientific ideas. However, he received several interesting letters from scientific correspondents..." James Peters writes about the...
A visit to a William Blake exhibition – and why his (and his wife’s) letters are useful, part 2
Naomi Billingsley, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the JRRI and one of the Lives of Letters team, writes:At the end of November, I wrote a post about some of the ways in which the letters of William Blake are useful to scholars researching his work.Here, I’m going...
Ethical and interpretative issues workshop, 16 February 2018
Our first of two workshops this semester is now fully booked. To register for the waiting list, please fill out our Google form.This workshop will engage participants in interdisciplinary conversation on the theme of the ethical and interpretative challenges of...
Happy birthday William Blake – and why his letters are useful (part 1)
Naomi Billingsley, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the JRRI and one of the Lives of Letters team, writes: Today is the birthday of poet, painter and visionary William Blake (1757-1827). Blake's letters are an important resource for scholars of his work for a number...
Seminar 3 – Private and Public Letters – 14 December
Please join us for our third seminar this semester. Four lightning talks will consider issues involved in working with private and public correspondence, with discussion following.14 December, 5pm - 6:30pm, Christie Room, The John Rylands Library. All welcome!We will...
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