https://streetsofsalem.com/2017/12/18/an-open-letter-to-the-leadership-of-the-peabody-essex-museum/
“Regarding the recent admission that the Museum plans to consign nearly all of the collections of the Phillips Library, including manuscript and printed materials central and unique to the history of Salem, to a new Collections Center in Rowley, before the December 6, 2017 meeting of the Salem Historic Commission.”
“Please return Salem’s historical archives to Salem.”