We're Texas - HRC's Nabs Marquez' archive

[texas_ex2000]

www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/24/colombian-writer-gabriel-garcia-marquezs-archive-goes-to-texas

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[LonghornCatholic]

Cool.

 

[huisache]

His memoir was the most enjoyable literary figure work I have read. I would love to read the earlier drafts.

The Ransom Center is to my way of thinking the most outstanding gem in our crown. It also dovetails nicely with the Latin American collection, which is the most extensive of his type in the world. I once heard a LA history specialist say that UT has more stuff on some LA countries than their governments did,

My favorite at the Ransom is the David Douglas Duncan photo archive. He was a Magnum photographer and the first great photo book I ever saw was one he did during the Korean War.

He bought a house down the road from Picasso's and became his friend and favorite photographer. Picasso would call him up and tell him he had an inspiration coming on and invite Duncan down to photo the creation. Duncan did several books of photos on Picasso.

Make an appointment and take a short tutorial and you can view them. It is like touching the hem of God's gown.

 

[Texanne]

When I was a student in the 70s, it was known as the Humanities Research Center: the HRC.

Nice that they didn't even have to change the initials.

I agree that it's quite a jewel, and it's too bad that most people don't even know it exists.

 

[texas_ex2000]

The only competior to HRC in the US is the Beineke Libray at Yale. I actually read there Gertrude Stein's personal 1st Edition Scribner and Son's of The Great Gatsby, which was given to her by Fitzgerald. He had personal notes for her in the pages. For a nerd like me, it was like getting VY's cleats from the Rose Bowl.

These two libraries are like NASA and the Soviets during the Space Race.

New Yorker Article - HRC Final Destination, "Why do the archives of so many great wrtiers end up in Texas?"

 

[accuratehorn]

THe HRC has the Gernsheim photography collection, one of the two most important collections in the world, the other being the Eastman collection in Rochester, New York.
The HRC has untold numbers of valuable and interesting collections, including original notes by Woodward and Bernstein compiled while reporting the Watergate scandal, which we examined a year or so ago when my history buff brother-in-law visited. You register and are trained in handling the materials, and you can examine many original documents, notebooks, photos, and numerous other items.
The shows there are always interesting, and can't be recommended strongly enough. Great place!