All comments about the website and online archive are welcome. If information is inaccessible or incorrect or can be better identified (for example, if the first name of a personal name can be supplied), please let us know. Positive comments are particularly welcome. The Alexander Parris Digital Project reports to its funding agency, the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Comments about how the online archive has assisted in your research will help to justify the institute’s investment in the project.

Please send comments to Betsy Lowenstein, Parris Project coordinator, at
betsy.mcgovern@state.ma.us or special.collections@state.ma.us

Some comments that have been received:

• “The website is absolutely wonderful, a real treasure!… I have made Parris my life for the last three years. Working in archives I know how long projects like this can take and how you wonder if it will all be appreciated. Well, it is very appreciated and I will share the site with my fellow Parris scholars.”

  Keshia Annette Case, M.A. student in Art History at the Virginia Commonwealth University. Her thesis is titled: “Alexander Parris in Richmond: 1810–1812.” She is contributing a chapter entitled “A House Befitting: The Architectural Evolution of Virginia’s Executive Mansion” to an upcoming University of Virginia publication.

• “This is a great boon to my research…. There isn’t much here to help me with the book I’m currently writing on Connecticut lighthouse, but in a couple of years when I write my volume on Maine some of this material will be a big help. Parris’ importance to lighthouse history is sometimes neglected, and this will help change that.”

  Jeremy D’Entremont, author and researcher.