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'Family Guy' Creator Donates Carl Sagan Papers to Library of Congress

The creator of the hit animated series "Family Guy" has donated a vast trove of the late astronomer Carl Sagan's papers to the Library of Congress, officials announced today (June 27).Writer, producer and director Seth MacFarlane gave the U.S. Library of Congress — the largest library in the world — about 800 boxes of material documenting Sagan's life and work. The papers include book drafts, "idea files" on various subjects and Sagan's extensive correspondence.The material should also shed light on Sagan's childhood. It contains his birth announcement, his grammar-school report cards and handwritten notebooks documenting his youthful thoughts and scribbles, officials said."We are honored to preserve and make accessible to researchers the legacy of Carl Sagan , a man who devoted his life to the study of the universe," Librarian of Congress James Billington said in a statement."The Sagan papers are a rich addition to the Library’s already-outstanding collection of science manuscripts an...

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