The Edward Lear collection includes manuscripts and letters. Complete digital images are provided for some manuscripts. Harry Ransom Center UT Austin – Digital Collections. The Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research center at The University of Texas at Austin. The Ransom Center is in the process of digitizing all of the items in this collection and more images will be gradually added here as they are completed. His works are remembered for their wit and wordplay, and often feature surprise endings, as seen in his Christmas story, "The Gift of the Magi." O. Henry was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter, was an American author of short stories. The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin wanted to make its collection on writer Gabriel García Márquez available to scholars worldwide. This archival collection includes ten book manuscripts, 40 photo albums, and over 2,000 pieces of correspondence. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin is home to the archives of novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Edward Lear was an English artist, author, musician, and poet born in 1812. He has been dubbed by some the Father of Nonsense because of his use of literary nonsense throughout his work. At its opening in 1972, the building seemed quite the opposite—foreign, inscrutable, hostile, and impenetrable. Eliot with sale of his archives to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He moved to Texas in 1882 and to Austin in 1884. One of his better-known works, Book of Nonsense published in 1846, includes the poem, "There was an old man of Narkunder." Former US poet laureate Billy Collins has joined the ranks of such initialed luminaries as E.E. Interested readers from around the world can explore almost 400 digitized items from this collection on the Ransom Center's website. Cummings and T.S. Jul 11, 2015 - REVEAL - Harry Ranson Center Digital Collections made available! Almost 1,000 panoramic photographs dating primarily from the mid-1910s through 1930 were recently made available to the public through the Harry Ransom Center’s digital collections website. With tools built into the Center’s digital collection management software, researchers can now easily compare manuscript pages between collections from anywhere in the world. Gushee discusses the background and collection strengths of the Harry Ransom Center, its current online offerings, as well as plans to implement a new digital assets management system for current and new online collections. One 3.5-inch floppy disk containing drafts of the manuscript Whose Names Are Unknown has been separated from the collection and is housed in the Ransom Center's Digital Collection. For an overview of the collection, please consult the finding aid. 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