Special Collections Closed for Winter Break

December 21, 2018

Special Collections will be closed for Winter Break (December 24, 2018 through January 1, 2019).

We will reopen with normal hours (9 AM to 5 PM) on January 2, 2019.

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The image shown here is from the cover of The winter solstice by Harold Monro, drawings by David Jones (London: Faber & Gwyer Limited, printed at The Curwen Press, Plaistow, [1928]), no. 13 of The Ariel Poems, from our Private Press Collection. As Monro wrote of the solstice, which we celebrate today, “We learned to flock together from the cold, and mingle in the glow …”