Writers Reading, Readers Writing

Avicenna Naples, Italy, 1463 The Canon medicinae, a compendium of medical knowledge and a guide to clinical teaching, was derived from Galenic writings and infused by Avicenna with Arabic medical lore. The first three books were printed in Latin in 1472...

George Lyman Kittredge Harvard University, 1878-1880 Professor of English literature George Lyman Kittredge (Harvard, A.B., 1882) taught at Harvard from 1888 to 1936. A medievalist, he wrote on Chaucer, Shakespeare, grammar, and witchcraft, and edited...

Benjamin Waterhouse Oxford, England; Harvard Medical School, 1772 The flyleaves and end papers of Bibles were often used to note the births, deaths, and marriages of family members. But this Bible, belonging to the Waterhouse family, was used to record...

William James Brazil, 1865 The collection contains personal and professional correspondence of American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910). Most of the letters are written by him, including over 1,300 to his wife Alice (1849-1922) and...