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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTIONS

401 CARNEGIE LIBRARY
Syracuse, New York 13210
Tel. (Area Code 315) 476-5571 Ext. 2583, 3141

September 14, 1964

Miss Marion Sanford
Wells Hill Road
Lakeville, Connecticut

Dear Miss Sanford:

For several years, Syracuse University has been developing the most advanced collegiate art center in the United States.  Through a perennial mural program whereby a noted artist adds his work to one of our new buildings each year, and by the continual purchase of paintings for the University's Art Museum, we have moved rapidly toward our goal.  But we have done even more than this.  Syracuse is also preserving papers and other materials related to noted sculptors to foster research and to help students visualize and appreciate our great art heritage.

Therefore, we would like to begin preserving material in a Marion Sanford Manuscript Collection in recognition of your achievements.  Such a collection would be a boon to our School of Art and to the University and scholarly world as well.  Students and art historians for generations to come will be able to gain a better understanding and fresh appreciation of your career in all of its various aspects.

Generally, we try to preserve all non-current letters and general correspondence, any records or files, working sketches, drawings, paintings, photographs, notes, exhibition catalogues, plasters, newspaper clippings, fan mail, and articles or books (whether published or unpublished.)  In other words, we would like to provide a home for everything related to Marion Sanford, even though some of this material might appear to be routine or seemingly useless.  At Syracuse your material would be permanently shelved in a large air-conditioned area after it is categorized, inventoried, arranged and boxed.  Of course, your papers could also be kept confidential for any length of time that you may designate.  This would be governed by an agreement between the Library and the donor.  Arrangements for an income tax appraisal can also be made should you desire to have one and in all probability, this might prove to be greatly beneficial to you.

Finally, let me say that the Chancellor and Board of Trustees of Syracuse University would be honored by the addition of your material to our University collection.  Therefore, I hope this request will interest you in our work and that I shall hear from you in the near future.

Sincerely yours,
Martin H. Bush
Martin H. Bush
Deputy Administrator of Manuscripts

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