[Date]

Permissions Department
[Organization Name and Address]

Dear [Contact Name]:

The American National Corpus (ANC) is a 100 million word electronic collection of contemporary spoken and written American English designed to provide the raw data on which an empirical study of language can be based. More than 25 international universities, publishers and technology companies have joined forces to create the American National Corpus that will be distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium.

We have selected a number of texts which we would like to include in the ANC to build a broadly representative sample of modern American English. The attached sheet gives formal details of the permission we are requesting.

We hope you will be able to grant us this permission and in so doing aid the development of an important national resource. If you agree to the inclusion of the texts in the American National Corpus, could you please sign the copy of the "Permissions Request" and return it in the enclosed envelope.

We have used our best effort to establish that you control the copyright of the title(s) in question. If you do not, we would be most grateful if you could let us know who does.

Yours sincerely

James Fiumara
Intellectual Property Manager
American National Corpus
Linguistic Data Consortium
Telephone: (215) ???-????
EMail: jfiumara@ldc.upenn.edu