August 3, 2007
20 Years of Archival Ambition
The director of the Harry Ransom center at the U. of Texas talks about risks and rewards in literary collecting
In late 1956, Harry Huntt Ransom — who was at that time the dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Texas at Austin — gave a speech to the Philosophical Society of Texas.
"Why should Texas not establish here in the capital city (in connection with the state university and in affiliation with all the related libraries owned by the people of Texas) a center for the collection of knowledge? . . . The great urban, regional, and national centers
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