The file contains correspondence and original proposal "letter"; notes, agenda, minutes (also handwritten) and correspondence on the meeting of a committee of experts to discuss on ESF initiative in the field of the conservation of manuscripts and old books (Paris, 24/02/1981); correspondence about restoration and conservation of paper (notably with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and the Library of the United Nation) for awaiting proposal; Note on a meeting to discuss the possibilities of undertaking an inventory of laboratories and services involved in research on manuscripts (Paris, 17/12/1981); Circular letters to Member organisation about the proposal, questionnaire/survey commissioned by the SCH of Centres which are concerned with dating and analyzing manuscripts by technological means, report on the survey; draft of the introduction of the volume "Manuscripts and Technology. A European Survey" ; Colloquium proposal on «Archives européennes et production intellectuelles».

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