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June 1, 1956 Mr. B. H. Porter 6621 California Street San Francisco 21, California Dear Mr. Porter: Enclosed is a 11st of the material which you presented to the Maine Author Collection. It is good to know that the representation of your work may be brought up to date, and we look forward to the arrival of your further writings. Because of our limited funds, we have always hoped that our Maine authors could present the books and writings to the collection. Sometimes. they do not feel that this is possible; and in such cases we do the best we can. We cannot always buy the books as promptly as we should like; but we do make a note of them, and add them as we can. If you have available the items necessary to make your work complete in the collection, and care to present them, we shall be most grateful of course. If you cannot present them, can you let us know the approximate cost? In that case, we hope that we may be able to purchase them quite soon; if we can't, we will simply keep the list, and order as we are able to do so. Your mention of postage is noted, and we should be glad to refund the postal cost of mailing the items, as you suggest. Thank you for writing to us, and anticipate hearing from you about the matter again. Sincerely yours

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In Charge of Maine Author Collection

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