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Excerpt of the letter from UAW President Walter P. Reuther to Earth Day-founder Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, 1969. The letter documents Reuther's pledge of $2,000, the initial seed money to fund Nelson's campaign to create an official Earth Day holiday. From the Olga Madar Papers.