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Extract of letter of May 15, 1916 
from Dr. Edgar L. Hewett to Mr. W. H. Holmes 
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I have the pleasure of announcing to the members of the 
Managing Committee that, through the gene rosity of Mr. Frank 
Springer and a group of his friends, the sum of $30,000.00 has 
been raised for the School of American Archaeology to enable it 
to make available an equal sum voted by the State of New Mexico 
and a valuable site adjacent to the Palace of the Governors, 
donated by the people of Santa Fe , for the construction of a new 
Museum and Art Gallery. 
The new building, contents, and site, together with the 
Palace and its equipment, valued at $350,000.00, are granted to 
the School of American Archaeology for its perpetual use. The 
collections costing $100,000.00, assembled by the School for the 
Panama California Exposition and which have become the property 
of the Museum of San Diego, together with ample laboratories in 
the fire-proof California Quadrangle, have been made available 
for the use of our projected San Diego Anthropological Station. 
The entire equipment of the School may be conservatively 
valued at half a million dollars, against which there is no 
indebtedness. To this must be added the permanent appropriation 
of $10,000.00 a year (the income on $250,000.00 at four per cent) 
by the State of New Mexico for the maintenance of the local 
establishment. It is expected that the branch at San Diego will 
