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The bulk of the material in Series E came to SCPC in the
accessions of 1977 and 1978. The arrangement of the series is
based on the arrangement of the materials in Accession Number
78A-8 when they arrived. These materials are thought to have been
arranged by Paul Murphy, a student who spent a January internship
working for SANE in 1978. There is a paper by Murphy in Series G,
Box 18, but unfortunately the paper says very little about his
work on the SANE records. When the material arrived at SCPC, it
had been arranged year by year, with categories #1 through #9 for
each year. As the material was being processed by the SCPC staff,
it was decided to arrange the material first by the designated
categories and then chronologically within each category. A few
changes have been made in the categories so that they are now as
follows:
Category #5 now contains correspondence arranged by topics within each year. When the material arrived at SCPC, all correspondence for one year was in several very fat folders. The processor has divided the correspondence by topics on the basis of notations for filing on the letters themselves or on the basis of letter content. There are some items in these folders which seem to have come from files of the National Office in New York.
The new Category #6 contains correspondence which is arranged first geographically, then chronologically. More that half of the correspondence in this subseries had come to SCPC in Accession Number 77A-30. The remainder was mixed in with the correspondence in Category #5 in Accession Number 78A-8. Researchers should note that this subseries contains correspondence after 1970. Span dates vary from state to state, some ending as late as 1976. Additional correspondence arranged by states is located in Series G and Series H.
Materials which came to SCPC labelled as "File Topics" in the original Category #6 have been moved to a newly created Category #10. Material is arranged alphabetically by topic. Many of these folders contain material covering a span of years; some of the material dates from the early 1970s. Although the bulk of the files are reference materials, there is also some correspondence. Correspondence has been placed in separate folders within each topic. SANE publications have been moved to Series A (up to 1970) or Series G (1971 and later).
Throughout Series E, an attempt has been made to pull out SANE materials which more appropriately belong in Series A, such as minutes and SANE publications. This was done to reduce duplication and to make Series A as complete as possible.