For many years, early John Updike manuscripts\u2014the gift of the author during his lifetime\u2014have been available to researchers in the Houghton Reading Room.\u00a0 When the remainder of the archive was purchased from the author\u2019s estate in 2009, this early portion remained open for research while the newly acquired material was off-limits until cataloged.<\/p>\n
Processing of the 2009 purchase continues apace.\u00a0 The time has come to integrate the early material into the larger archive.\u00a0 As of June 1, access to all of John Updike’s papers is closed until the entire collection has been processed. We anticipate processing to be completed in the summer of 2012.<\/p>\n
Readers may access books from John Updike’s library<\/a> in the Houghton Library reading room. For information on access, please visit Houghton Library’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue to check our blog for announcements relating to the collection. Please feel free to contact the Modern Books and Manuscripts department with any questions by email, houghton_modern AT harvard.edu, or by phone at 617.495.2449.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For many years, early John Updike manuscripts\u2014the gift of the author during his lifetime\u2014have been available to researchers in the Houghton Reading Room.\u00a0 When the remainder of the archive was purchased from the author\u2019s estate in 2009, this early portion remained open for research while the newly acquired material was off-limits until cataloged. Processing of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64929],"tags":[3500,4383],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houghton-library","tag-cataloging","tag-updike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-e4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}