Reminiscences of writer Henry James from friends and loved ones, courtesy of the Woodberry Poetry Room and Houghton Library at Harvard University.

Ruth Draper - The restless analyst

Theodora Bosanquet - First impressions of Henry James

Burgess Noakes - A lad in the Master's employ

Recorded at Holden Chapel, Harvard University, by Frederick C. Packard, Jr. 

9.6 Packard Collection survey: "Trial recording of Air Raid" (Side 2)

Archibald MacLeish, "Trial recording of Air Raid: Side 2" (Oct. 1938)

Courtesy of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. Property of Credo Records/Pathways of Sound (1967).

Lecture: "R. Buckminster Fuller Thinks Aloud" (1967)

R. Buckminster Fuller (HOLLIS No. 009597922)

Harvard Vocarium Outtakes: Mixtape of Pound, Kees & Moore

A transcript and description of this interview (with archival images) is available at http://woodberrypoetryroom.com/?p=2469.

Conversation with Jean Valentine (January 24, 2017)

An excerpt featuring the last two lines of "Difficulties of a Statesman." Recorded by Frederick C. Packard, Jr., for the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. Part of the Packard Collection (MS Am 3065). 

A complete Finding Aid of these recordings will be available in Summer 2017. For additional information, visit: http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom/about or contact the curator at davis2@fas.harvard.edu.

WPR Recording of Excerpt of TSE Difficulties (1947)

Excerpt from Frost's Morris Gray Reading (Dec. 1960)

Excerpt from Rukeyser's Harvard Advocate Reading (1979)

Excerpt of Lorde's Studio Recording (1970)

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