The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38077   Message #534115
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
23-Aug-01 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: What's so special about F. J. Child?
Subject: RE: BS: What's so special about F. J.Child?
Any collector must take a point of view, confine himself to what he can handle, and organize. Child did just that. It is difficult to think of others who did as much. Clone Childs are needed to collate broadsheets in the various collections. More will be left out of each compilation than what is included, whoever does the work, but organized groupings, albeit selective, give the successor a starting point and a focus.