and Deidre Johnson (Hess Collection for Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer
Syndicate (1993)).
Occasionally a researcher must travel to several collections for one assignment. For
American Picture Books: From Noah’s Ark to the Beast Within (1976), Barbara Bader used
more than ten special children’s collections.
Some author collections are widely scattered—for example, Laura Ingalls Wilder
original materials. The handwritten manuscript for Little House on the Prairie (1935) is
at the Pomona Public Library in California, manuscripts for The Long Winter (1940) and
These Happy Golden Years (1943) are at the Detroit Public Library in Michigan; and the
early correspondence between Laura and Almanzo Wilder published in 1974 by Harper
as West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder to Almanzo Wilder, San Francisco,
1915 is in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa. The Carol
Ryrie Brink manuscripts for Caddie Woodlawn (1935) are at the Kerlan Collection in
Minnesota, while the illustrations for the first edition by Kate Seredy are at the
University of Oregon.
Organisations, PublicationsArticles deriving from work in the special collections can be found in the major journals.
The American Library Association (ALA) and its Association for Library Service to
Children (ALSC) and Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) jointly provide the
Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, which has occasional articles related to special
children’s literature collections. Specialist publications include the de Grummond’s
Juvenile Miscellany.
The two most up-to-date reference works for the USA are Children’s Authors and
Illustrators: A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the United States Research Libraries
(1980) compiled by James H.Fraser, and the 1982 edition of Special Collections in
Children’s Literature. In the latter’s Collections by Subject section, for example, a
researcher finds that Maurice Sendak’s inscribed books and original art work are held
by Indiana University in Bloomington, University of Minnesota, and the Rosenbach
Museum and Library. The Directory of Collections section is organised geographically by
the name of the state. For example, under the heading ‘Pennsylvania’, eleven different
collections are listed. An address telephone number, and list of holdings follows each
entry. For the Rosenbach Museum and Library, three individual holdings are named—
Lewis Carroll, Maurice Sendak and John Tenniel. Two appendices provide additional
information. The Reference to Collections section lists publications including descriptive
catalogues, guides, brochures, newsletters, and journal articles. The second appendix is
entitled, ‘Authors and illustrators in major collections not listed in body of work’. For
example, Newbery Award winner for Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), author Scott
O’Dell’s name does not appear in the Collections by Subject section. His name is listed
under both the University of Oregon Library and the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Lance Salway’s Special Collections of Children’s Literature (1972) and Tessa Chester’s
Sources of Information about Children’s Books (1989) provide lists of collections in
Britain.
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