The Inside Story of the Elizabeth Nesbitt Room
Sketch

21) A letter on the back of this sketch, dated Sept. 29, 1938, is from James Thurber's brother Robert, addressed to Fletcher Hodges, Jr., former Curator of the Foster Hall Collection: "Please accept the enclosed pencil sketch with my compliments...my brother did it in an idle moment at home a couple of years ago." James Thurber's Many Moons won the Caldecott Award in 1944.