Recent News
Collection of Ezra Pound Materials
Acquired by Harry Ransom Center
A major collection of Ezra Pound, materials from Marcella Spann Booth, one of Pound's close friends and collaborators late in his life, has been acquired by the Center. The collection fills 14 archival document boxes and includes more than 700 journal-like letters Pound wrote to Spann Booth, documenting his life and career from his hospitalization at St. Elizabeth's to his later years in Italy.
Other News
– Harry Ransom Center Presents the Harry Ransom Lectures
– Ransom Center's Exhibition Celebrates Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe
– "The Persian Sensation: 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' in the West" Explores Popularity of Poem's Translation
– Fritz Henle Photography Exhibition Finds Beauty in Ordinary Subjects
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Texas Public Relations Association
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Texas Public Relations Association 2008 Best of Texas
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