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Henry Edwards Huntington was born on this day in 1850, which makes today Founder's Day at The Huntington. You can mark the occasion by downloading last week's Founder's Day talk by David Zeidberg, the Avery Director of the Library.

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize might walk the halls of the Huntington Library, but come February the only awards that matter are the Oscars. Luckily, The Huntington has one in its collections.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Abraham Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela have all changed the world in one way or another. And from Cymbidium Margaret Thatcher to Phalaenopsis Aung San Suu Kyi, these leaders have been forever immortalized in the botanical world as well.

Bates and Anna. Matthew and Lady Mary. Lady Edith and Sir Anthony. Lord and Lady Grantham. If you are a fan of the British television series "Downton Abbey" you know that all is not fair in love. So far this season we have had a newlywed husband languishing in prison

Another post—in two parts this time—in a series from the cataloger of the Anne M. Cranston cookbook collection, which consists of approximately 4,400 British and American cookbooks from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Another post—in two parts this time—in a series from the cataloger of the Anne M. Cranston cookbook collection, which consists of approximately 4,400 British and American cookbooks from the 19th and 20th centuries.

For the second time in four years, The Huntington's Library Collectors' Council has added to the Library's Charles Dickens holdings, acquiring a set of 15 letters by the prolific 19th-century British novelist. Back in 2010, the council purchased a set of 35 letters, adding to the more than a thousand already in the collection. The latest acquisition comes just in time to celebrate the author's 201st birthday—he was born Feb. 7, 1812.

Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington.