00100	Professor John R. Pierce								January 13, 1975
00200	California Institute of Technology
00300	Pasadena, California 91109
00400	
00500	
00600	Dear John:
00700	
00800	Your letter missed John Chowning by just one day!  He had been here for the holidays
00900	
01000	and to help out on a proposal going to the Psycho-Biology section of N.S.F.   As you
01100	
01200	heard from Max, we have been successful with our primary N.S.F. proposal.  However,
01300	
01400	as expected, the amount of money offered is below what was requested.  The idea of the
01500	
01600	second proposal, specifically in psycho-acoustics, is to make up this difference.  In any
01700	
01800	case, in order to make use of the N.S.F. funds we must also be successful with the N.E.A.
01900	
02000	proposal and the raising of the required matching funds.  Chowning phoned today from
02100	
02200	Washington to tell us that we have passed the first N.E.A. committee with high recommend-
02300	
02400	ations and that the final decision will be made at a meeting in the first week of February.
02700	
02750	
02800	The Stanford President's office has assigned a professional fund-raiser to this project and while
02900	
03000	he seems to be working at getting our matching funds there have only been a few nibbles so far.
03100	
03200	The enclosed sheet is for his use.  Your offer to help us is very kind indeed.  (Your moral support
03225	
03250	has already proved to be of great value.)  I suppose what we need at this point is to find some
03300	
03350	philanthropist who is turned on by electronic music and can grasp the great potential for this
03400	
03450	field in our work.  Needless to say if you know of anyone of that sort we would certainly like 
03550	
03575	to make contact with him.
03600	
04400	
04500	As soon as we get the psycho-acoustics proposal printed up a copy shall be sent
04600	
04700	to you.  I think you will find it to be on a level with the first proposal.
04800	
04900	
05000	We are all looking forward to an end of this long period of proposal writing
05100	
05200	(does it ever end??) so the real work can move forward.  Do come and see us
05300	
05400	whenever you are in the neighborhood.
05800	
06000									Very sincerely,
06200	
06300	
06400									Leland Smith
06500									Professor of Music
06600									Stanford University