Hello to David Deacon and Big Mick and Kathy W. with the silvery voice!

Lovely messages all. I am stuck in one place and all the papers are far away, so bits and snatches help. I have a catalogue on REF's collected papers at Syracuse. HHF's major Collection and papers are in Middlebury, Vermont. I am having fun tracking down correspondence elsewhere. And there are lots of elsewheres. You gotta keep the work fun!

I knew that after Phillips Barry's death, Fannie Eckstorm became somewhat of a mentor figure to Granny. I have contacted the right person and --oh boy! oh boy!--in a day or two I will get to see what those ladies said to each other.

The beauty of it is that these people were sharing their joy and their knowledge of how to go about collecting and transcribing ballads.