The Week I Fell in Love with Archives
June 15th, 2016 by jules
Back in April of this year, I received the James Marshall Fellowship from The University of Connecticut’s Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. I spent a week looking through the James Marshall Papers there. (It was wonderful, and I still miss the very smell of the boxes.)
Today, I have a blog post up at the University’s site, all about my research there. If you’re a fan of James Marshall’s work, you might like to see the rare images up at the post (three of approximately 800 photos I took!).
That blog post is here.
Until tomorrow …
What an amazing opportunity to see all those things! James Marshall is one of my very favorites and I am excited to know you are making a biography made of his life and work. Recently I was reading the book Tell Me A Story and I loved the interview with James Marshall so much. In it he mentioned a piece of advice given to him by his good friend Arnold Lobel to always answer every piece of fan mail. Arnold Lobel is another author/illustrator whose work I adore and who also died much too young- but it gave me a good feeling to learn these two men were close friends.
Yes, great interview! I know what you’re talking about.
I think Jim watched Arnold die of AIDS, and then Sendak watched Jim die of AIDS. So sad.