The Boston Globe, July 27th, 2003
The offices of the Print Department on the third floor of the Boston Public Library have the feel of cutting-edge New Deal. Phone messages are entered into a log. There are bound folios the size of a table for two at Locke-Ober, old wood and historic fans that belong in the Smithsonian. This is the lair of Sinclair Hitchings. Renovation has forced him into a shoebox of an office that he calls temporary. He pauses and adds with exquisite timing, " `Temporary' at the Boston Public Library can mean 30 years." He has the marvelous title, "Keeper of Prints." But that belies what he really is: the g...
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