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J on Pai&ar fftlli** TOi Mr* Allan Sproul FBOXt Mildred Adams 8&S2* February *»# 1956 i s X Hxitik you know, the papers of E# Parker Willl* vere left by i d i l to hia eon, Parker B* VilUa, ifoo i t In the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston* In iferch of 1954 Hr# Parker B* Villie told me that hie father* e papers are In the Willis house In St&ien Xaland^ end ere in tvo l o t s , those papesrs concerning the period vp to 1920 caae out of the ViUis hotise in Vcahing^ ton# ver$ put Into four or five boxes, and stored In the cellar of the St&ten Xgland house* Papers since 1920 (drafts^ bearings, correspondence, ete t ) are in the attlo* Kr* Willie offered at that conference to go over the papers and see i f they Included material of value to us* provided that you wuld ask for a t w veektt1 leave of absence for him on that ground* Oy ovn preference* as you know, vonkd be for the papers to go inUct to 6olumbift# to be sorted, classified and catalogued there by people vho have m family stake in aqy of the old controversies In *hlch he ves concerned* Tae Onlversity Itself has an interest in the papers^ stemlia^ tram 0r« Vlllis 9 position ae a member of the faculty, and I vould hope that the faadly vis about reiK^y to l e t go of them* After nil, Dr* WlUls died in 1937* *hich i s nearly tvHUtjr y^crs ago* Mildred Mm*