#  A Harvard library mystery: Was a Titanic victim's rare book a fake?  

 





September 07, 2023

 

 

 In 2018, Vanessa Braganza was holding the ladder for a librarian in Harvard University’s Widener Library when her eye caught a flash of scarlet. There, among the towering shelves of rare books and manuscripts, sat a leather-bound volume that supposedly belonged to Mary Sidney Herbert, a leading author in Elizabethan England.

 Read more from *The Washington Post* [here](https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/08/06/harvard-library-titanic-mary-sidney-arcadia/).



 

 

 



 

 

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