The Editor, Sir:

Thanks for your coverage of the Garvey Multimedia Museum in your issue of October 16. I would like to acknowledge that four years ago in 2002, the first grant received by the Friends of Liberty Hall was under the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation administered by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Office of Public Affairs in Kingston.

This grant enabled us to digitise over 3,000 pages of columns, articles, and editorials from Garvey's Jamaican newspapers, The Blackman (1929-1931) and the New Jamaican (1932-1933) as well as to create a photo archive of nearly 100 photographs of personalities from the 1930s.

This provided an important platform for the research on Garvey's Jamaican years which has gone into the Garvey Multimedia Museum and helped to complement the extensive American archives that we have drawn on.

All our many donors, among whom are the Government of Jamaica, HEART/Trust NTA, CHASE, the Institute of Jamaica, Jamaica National Heritage Trust, several private sector companies, Jamaicans at home and abroad, will be recognised on a plaque at Liberty Hall. Liberty Hall is located at 76 King Street in Kingston.

I am, etc.,

PROF. RUPERT LEWIS

Chairman, Friends of Liberty Hall