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FEB 25 [faded date stamp in red] February 18, 1957 Maine State Library Augusta, Maine Attention:Mrs Jacobs:Maine Author Collection Gentlemen: Under separate cove I have sent 1. the ms of Saucers and Saucerism (incomplete0 by Kenneth H. Ford and myself 2. the ms of Robert Carleton Brown by myself 3. the ms of Glossary of Rocket Terminology by myself 4. my book Drawings 1955-1956 Should you have time I would be interested in answers to these questions: 1.How long has the library been collecting Maine authors? 2. How many are now included? 3. What is the average size or bulk of material per each? 4.Is any publicity ever given to this collection as a whole? 5.In what form? 6.What of publicity or mention of the individual collections or authors? Your answers will prove more than interesting. As a graduate of Colby I have long been impressed by the lack of interest of both officials and the library there in the works of its alumni in the field of writing and art, especially if the work does not permit the creators to bestow grants on the college. If you have some subtle but effective means of reminding both the college officials and the college library that I am at least represented at your library I would appreciate it greatly. My class year is 1932. Besides being the author of a number of things I also publish the works of other people under the name of Bern Porter Books and have done so since 1941. Someday there should be a collection of all of the titles of this press in Maine. Some of the titles were produced in Houlton and bear the imprint of that town where I was born. Inspection of Publishers Weekly and Wilson Indexes will give you some idea of the magnitude of works I have issued by other authors in the field of American Contemporary Vanguard. Sincerely yours, Bernard H. Porter [handwritten]