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Re: Related Correspondence Collection



The collections should be kept separate.  But consider this,
if your finding aid format is similar, it would be easy after
processing to create a chronological guide by merging
the entries.  That way you'd have a tool for users, and
could also see any gaps in the correspondence.

Dean


At 09:27 AM 5/15/01 -0500, Julie Grob wrote:
Hello,

I am currently processing a largish collection of a writer's papers,
including her correspondence with other people. Our department has recently
acquired from one of these other people a box worth of correspondence from
the writer to them.

Here's my question. An argument could be made for working this single box
of correspondence into the writer's largish collection since it is so
closely related, but I am concerned that this would damage the integrity of
the original collection, which is all material obtained from the writer
herself.

Is it preferable to leave the new box of correspondence as a separate
collection, and simply include a reference to it in the finding of the
writer's papers?

Thanks for any thoughts on the subject!

Julie Grob

Julie Grob
Special Collections Librarian
University of Houston Libraries
Houston, TX 77204-2091
(713) 743-9744
jgrob@uh.edu

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