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THE BUILDING: The Smith College Museum is a completely fire-proof, air-conditioned building which is protected against the possibility of fire by a smoke-sensitive PYR-A-LARM system and against theft by a DIEBOLT RADAR ALARM system.

CATALOGUE: An illustrated, scholarly catalogue with an introductory essay by Professor Holderbaum (or by a second scholar whose name cannot be used at present) will be published. The catalogue will be designated by Professor Leonard Baskin of our faculty.

Despite what might seem like a remote location, the audience for our exhibitions and publications is surprisingly large and in the past year has averaged one thousand a week. We have within a seven-mile radius the campuses of Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst and the University of Massachusetts. In addition to the college audience, large portions of the ordinary community devotedly attend our exhibitions. We frequently have visitors from Hartford, Springfield, Boston and New York. Our special audience will include not only the majority of Renaissance scholars resident in New England, but on the week-end of May 1 to 3 ("Fathers' Week-end") about one thousand two hundred fathers of Smith sophomores and juniors.

The work we would like to borrow is listed on the attached sheet. I hope that you will favor us with a careful and, finally, a favorable consideration. We will take every precaution with your work and will be most grateful for your much needed help. This list is for immediate reference only; a regular form will be forthcoming should the loan be granted. 

I am looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,
David S. Brooke
in the absence of
Professor Charles Chetham
Director

encl. 

P.S. We are sending a group of recent publications under separate cover and directed to you personally so that you will have an idea of the quality of our recent publications.