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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY:FOUNDED A.D.1870
SOUS CULTORES SCIENTIA CORONAT

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTIONS

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

October 5, 1964

Miss Marion Sanford
Winderley
Lakeville, Connecticut

Dear Miss Sanford:

Thank you for your letter of September 29.  We are pleased to learn that you will try to cooperate with us in preserving your material in a Marion Sanford Collection at Syracuse University.  Although you may feel that you have only a modest number of manuscripts and a rather large number of uncast plasters, let my assure you that anything and everything you wish to send to Syracuse University would be welcomed.  Actually we have a great deal of room at the University and it might easily be possible to have one of your larger pieces cast and placed at a suitable location at our campus.  Of course this would be done only id you approve of this sort of thing.  Perhaps I will be able to visit you at Lakeville, Connecticut, in the near future.  We can then discuss this matter further.

Meanwhile, let me take the opportunity to tell you more about our program.  We would like to preserve everything you have ever produced in a written, typed or printed form.  For example this would include fan mail. photographs, newspaper clippings, notes, lectures, reviews, catalogues, speeches, working drawings, copies of outgoing mail, sketches, non-current or dead files, plasters, or, in other words, we would rather preserve everything related to your life and work than see any of it discarded or destroyed.

Syracuse pays all transportation costs so material can be shipped to me collect via REA Express.  In addition arrangements can be made to have your material appraised for income tac purposed.  We will also supply you with Xerox copies and, or, photographs of any drawings or sketches and other material you donate to the University should you need them for your own research purposed now or at any time in the future.  Your material can also be closed to researchers for several years if you so desire.  This would be entirely up to you.

With every good wish, I remain

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

MHB/ust

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