Letter to Don Greame Kelley from Dr. Tracy I. Storer, Professor of Zoology at U.C. Davis, 1953 February 25

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA

25 February 1953

Mr. Don G. Kelley

California Academy of Sciences

Golden Gate Park

San Francisco 18, California

Dear Kelley:

The bear drawing for the California State Flag arrived yesterday and

has been sent to Mr. Fred W. Links, Asst. Director, State Department of -

Finance, Sacramento. Shortly your portrayal of our State's most note-

worthy mammal should appear in a legislative bill and, we hope, will sub-

sequently be included in the Government Code as the design to be followed

in subsequent manifestations of our flag. Your craftsmanship then will be

exhibited to millions of people in many places from the Governor's office

to the pops of our highest buildings and at the most remote of State Mon-

uments |

All this potential glory should suffice as your compensation, but

Since you, like other artists, have need of sustenance, send your bill to

Mye Links who has assured me that he will pay you in time. The amount

should be fair, somewhere between the extravagant pattern that some legi-

Slators hold in respect to the state budget and the lowly level which some

practical people would ascribe to artists.

I am delighted that you were able to provide a really good portrayal

of the grizzly in time for legislative action during the current session:

at Sacramento.

Sincerely,

9. Stree

Tracy I. Storer

Professor of Zoology

cece to Mr. Fred Links

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