The following links point to you a sample of an application to
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that I found on the Web.
By my standards, this is an extremely vague proposal, which
describes the collections well but is really skimpy about what
they might do with them!
2004-07-16_narrative.pdf
2004-07-16_appendix_1.pdf
2004-07-16_appendix_4.pdf
2004-07-23_budget.pdf