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...People will discover these things not by thinking I’ll go to Houghton, but these things are all Google-able. People doing a John Updike search come across the Houghton blog entry and then come to Houghton library and hopefully start reading the other entries. Updike??s getting a lot of hits,” Horrocks says, pulling up the Web page for Houghton’s Longfellow Exhibition...
Some advice for aspiring writers: if you anticipate your work being purchased en masse one day by the Houghton Library, have a mother who loves you. Or at least a mother like John Updike??s ’54, who compiles and binds your letters to be stored until the end of days...
While the majority of the Archive features Updike??s books and manuscripts, some quirkier gems include his Harvard and honorary degrees, his two Pulitzers, his pens and pencils, and the golf cards on which he would jot down ideas...
...Updike??s possessions in the current archive already make up 308 linear feet and will take an estimated two years to sort through. Now that’s a lot of Updike...
Morris said some of the more unexpected materials include Updike??s childhood work, including a copy of a short story he had submitted to the New Yorker with the rejection slip attached to the front...