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A Thank-You to Supporters

The editor and trustees of Abbey Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, want to express appreciation for support received from the people and organizations listed below.

All donations are considered as going to Abbey Publications (thus contributing to both the Abbey Newsletter and the Alkaline Paper Advocate). Since last September, we have been listing donations received during the previous twelve months, rather than those received during the current calendar year. In the last twelve months, a total of $4417 has been received.

Donors are listed below as Benefactors ($1000+), Sponsors ($500+), Patrons ($100+), and Contributors ($25+).

Benefactors

Bridgeport National Bindery

Patrons

Timothy D. Barrett
Joan T. Batchelor
Campbell-Logan Library Bindery
Pamela Darling
Robert W. Frase
James W. Mason
Elizabeth Morse
New York Community Trust--James Talcott Fund Ocker & Trapp Library Bindery
Lily Powell-Froissard (Assoc. Sauver les Documents...)
Elaine Schlefer
Nancy Schrock
Susan G. Swartzburg
One anonymous patron

Contributors

Nelly Balloffet
Betsy Palmer Eldridge
Anchor Hand Bookbinding
Sarah A Buchanan
Carlo Federici
Jane Dalrymple-Hollo
Carolyn Jane Gammon
Pat Grey
Tawny Ryan Nelb
Hilary Kaplan
Brian E. O'Connell
Gerald Lundeen
Roberta Pilette
Jan Merrill-Oldham
Patricia Reyes
Murray Millar
Eric C. Shoaf
Julia Miller
Martha M. Smith
Myra Jo Moon (deceased)
Robert L. Snow
James G. Stephens
Joan ten Hoor
Carolina Veenstra
Marilyn Kemp Weidner
James K. Wellvang
William Minter Bookbinding
John C. Wright

The Alkaline Paper Advocate is issued six times a year and has about 500 subscribers. Subscriptions (which include a free pH pen and a list of Useful Addresses) are on a calendar year basis: All start with the first issue of the year, unless otherwise requested, and end on Dec. 31, or after the last issue of the year has appeared. An index for the year is sent out in the first quarter. Individual subscriptions, and uncomplicated subscriptions from institutions, are $35; full-time students $20; others $45. All issues are in print and indexed. Checks should be made out to Abbey Publications, 7105 Geneva Dr., Austin, TX 78723. This is a nonprofit corporation set up to encourage preservation of written records, including the use of lasting materials in their creation.

No paid advertisements are accepted, but anything with news value will be printed if there is room for it. News items and information may be sent or called in at any time. Readers are encouraged to copy or circulate issues and parts of issues, and to reprint unsigned articles and news items; but the Editor's permission must be obtained for reprinting lengthy or signed articles.

Authors' opinions and descriptions of products or services in this newsletter are not to be taken as endorsements or policy statements by the publisher.

Indexed selectively in the Abstract Bulletin of the IPST, Paper and Board Abstracts (PIRA International) and Art & Archaeology Technical Abstracts.

Editor: Ellen McCrady Phone: 512/929-3992

Circulation Manager: Renee Knauth

Fax: 929-3995

Tax ID #: 87-0436104

Report to Readers for 1992

Last year we came out ahead: income exceeded expenses by a comfortable margin. In 1993 it will be the other way around: the expenses of getting set up in the new office with new staff and new software, of upgrading and double-checking our circulation records, of switching to double-entry bookkeeping, and of handling an increasing number of requests for information, will outrun income. The payoff should come in 1994 and beyond.

"Information gathering" includes the telephone, books, and conferences. When we get back on Email (soon), that cost will be part of this category too.

                           1992 Income

Subscriber fees                      $57,438                    50%
pH pen sales                         $43,526                    38%
Donations                             $7,668                     7%
Other                                 $6,131                     5%
   Total                            $114,763                   100%

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                        1992 Expenses

Payroll - 2.4 FTE                                    $38,437 37%
pH pen expense                                       $13,810 13%
Printing expense                                     $13,083 13%
Office expense; Rent                                 $10,896 10%
Information gathering                                $10,707 10%
Move to Texas                                         $7,093  7%
Postage                                               $5,381  5%
Other                                                 $5,498  5%
   Total                                            $104,905 100%

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Volume 6, Number 3 Sep 1993