Same concern for the Jerry Jarvis materials. I was in phone conversations several times the last in the last few years about this. Jai Guru Dev. He was interested in having it go to a special collection but did not want to give it over yet because he felt he had more work to do with it.
A best circumstance for Jerry’s material is to arrange to have it go to a real academic scholarly library. It is worthy as a whole collection. Don’t let anybody cherry pick it. Arrange to have it go. Box it and put in on pallets and let it go where it can be accessioned, saved and made available digitally. I don’t know who is helping Jerry’s estate but there are steps to make to save what he collected. He was telling me about what he had and there are some incredible sets of archival things that ought to stay together. It is an important history that should be somewhere trusted where it can be found. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Vince, This is really good news. There is a great virtue in whole collections like the Lutes material in keeping them together for interested scholarship to come along later to find. I can think of four academic libraries that would be open to taking them as a collection in tack. I have opened special collections related to the TM story at four different university scholarly libraries. Academic libraries would be great places to save your material as a collection where people would have free access to them. Giving things to the MUM library is questionable as to how the material might be edited, thrown out, and what the future access might be. However real scholarly libraries can be quite good as safe places to have material kept in tack and freely available to subsequent study. The Lutes material because he was viewed in such conflict with the Trust of TM probably ought to go to a real library somewhere to be safe. I will email you separately about my experience with this and some particular contacts. There is a collection on the West Coast where the archival staff would understand what you have and the material would be a perfect fit to what they already have. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <vince.fortherec...@yahoo.com> wrote : Dear Fairfield Life, Just to set the record straight: Several items from the TM related Memorabilia that I have collected over the years, I had placed for sale to try to help a family dear to me who had fallen on hard economic times (one of the family members had terminal cancer,) However, since nobody showed any interest in acquiring any of the few items that I had placed up for sale, I withdrew any further efforts to sell anything. Nothing had been sold. And the primary person who I was trying to help fulfill their last wish, subsequently died. Therefore, I no longer have any reason to sell any of the items. Hence, the few items that I had up for sale, as well as the rest of my entire collection of Memorabilia, will be given away for free to the most worthy individuals and/or institutions. I have had and enjoyed this collection for many years, so it is time to pass the items along so that they may be enjoyed by others. Two of the most precious of items have already been given away to private individuals!. Jai Guru Dev, Vince Daczynski
