It has been unseasonably cold today. The sun didn’t really come out until mid afternoon. In fact, for the first time, it was colder outside than it was in the air-conditioned library. I felt a bit silly sitting outside at lunchtime with my shorts on feeling cold, but usually I have the opposite problem.So far, my research has been entirely musical, looking at Scott Bradley’s cartoon scores. But today I started looking at the archive of his personal papers. Included among them were things like his mother’s last letters to her children, his great-grandmother’s handkerchief, and a relative’s letter to Scott’s widow dated a month after his death. I felt as though I shouldn’t be reading them. There were, of course, plenty of things that will aid my research – plenty of reasons why I should look through them. I won’t go into details, but there were one or two unpublished pieces of music that tie in to his cartoons.
I took this photo a while ago. It’s not the cartoon cat I’m looking for, but it’s interesting that a character from a century ago can still be such an icon. I don’t doubt that Tom will last just as long as Felix.
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