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[[image]] SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS 401 CARNEGIE LIBRARY Syracuse, New York 13210 Tel. (Area Code 315) 476-5571 Ext. 2583, 3141 April 20, 1964 Mr. Jasper Johns 340 Riverside Drive New York, New York Dear Mr. Johns: Syracuse University is currently engaged in a large undertaking aimed at making the papers and manuscripts of prominent artists and authors available to teachers, scholars and practitioners of learned professions. Many of our graduate and undergraduate students are keenly interested in the world of the artist. To promote, guide and assist this interest, the University is endeavoring to acquire and preserve the correspondence and files of well-known individuals such as you. Because of your remarkable career, we hope to establish a Jasper Johns Manuscript Collection at Syracuse University, in recognition of your past and future work. This material would be a boon to students of history and art as well as the university and scholarly world. Scholars for generations to come will be able to gain a better understanding and fresh appreciation of your career in all of its various aspects. The type of material we are looking for includes non-current letters and general correspondence, any records or files, working sketches, photographs, catalogues, newspaper clippings, fan mail, and manuscripts of articles, essays or books (whether published or unpublished). At Syracuse your papers would be permanently shelved in a large air-conditioned room after they are categorize, 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. We hope this request will interest you in our work and that we shall hear from you in the near future. Sincerely, Martin H. Bush Martin H. Bush Deputy Administrator of Manuscripts MHB:cp