'An ideal pursuit'

The Harvard Book  Store, in Cambridge

The Harvard Book Store, in Cambridge

“History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.‘‘

—- Elizabeth Hardwick ( 1916-2007), American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer