S4 Ep40: Shaun Usher, curator of correspondence
In Writing with Hattie Crisell
How Does the Research Process Work for These Letters?
In the beginning, it was literally me going to sotisus two thousand and nine wel. The problem with those old collections of letters is that they're so heavily mail dominated. 90 % of the letters in these collections are aremen, and they are white american men more often than not. So i had to spend quite a lot of time writing rejection emales to people who had sent me these incredibly personal er letters from their relatives. And since then, its all those avenues together. I became very good at flicking through a book and seeing what kind of letter you were talking about. E, s just being completely honest with people. Yes, that's what i did.
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