I am especially interested in methodologies for using personal collection items (photographs, letters, diaries, etc.) in conjunction with archival research. It would be really helpful to also be able to access said articles/books.
i adopt a non-method approach. instead, take daily journal to record the special "diaologues" between you and daily objects. after a while, you could be denoting some forms or patterns of consciousness as tempered day in and day out...