Wartime Letters Going to a New Home, Part 2

I'm nearly finished curating my family history materials and finding safe new homes for artifacts that don't have a close, direct connection to my family. This is Part 2 of the saga of letters and cards written by a family in England to my family in the Bronx, New York, during World War II. Last year, I decided the correspondence should either go to descendants of the letter-writers in England or be offered to a museum. Part 1 tells the story up to the point that the English family's descendants had been found by the Imperial War Museum in England, which was considering whether to accept the letters for study and archiving.All descendants agree, now what?My family and the letter-writers' descendants agreed whole-heartedly that the letters should go to the museum. We were excited at the prospect of the handwritten notes being professionally preserved and made available to researchers and possibly museum visitors.Before the museum's management could make a decision about accepting the…