Comment Love to play Devil's Advocate... (Score 1) 66
Is a private collection a bad thing?
Worst case scenario, they are lost forever in a private archive by a fire. Granted, worst case.
Medium case, the papers are held privately, but returned to light at the owner's or heir's choosing.
Best case, they are held but allowed to be in a public museum for viewing.
It's a somewhat obscure purchase. Would someone willing to spend that much on those papers be unsympathetic to the ideas behind the papers?
Worst case scenario, they are lost forever in a private archive by a fire. Granted, worst case.
Medium case, the papers are held privately, but returned to light at the owner's or heir's choosing.
Best case, they are held but allowed to be in a public museum for viewing.
It's a somewhat obscure purchase. Would someone willing to spend that much on those papers be unsympathetic to the ideas behind the papers?