Save Your Letters: Liberating Crammed Materials

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Here's a collection that was packed all in this 45 -- little record box. And it was a collection of letters from Vietnam. I removed those letters and -- you can just remove them and put them in a box. Rather than cramming them in at an odd angle in here in that poor quality material -- all I've done is put it into an archival box -- store it, put a label on it and it will be fine. If you decide to go the one step farther, I've got another box. And here, I've tied together, sorted the material according to their size, and tied them together with twill tape. As well as these here - this is a whole other size. And they obviously need more work at some point, there are a lot of torn pieces. I may want to open, take the letters out of the envelopes and flatten them at some point. But for right now, I've bunched those that belong together and put some archival tissue in there to support them so they're not flapping all over the box and put them in storage. You've gone a long way to preserving your collections that way.