In response to a call-out by the NSA for historical materials related to the Faith in America, Mason Remey put together an extensive Archive of his materials, and put them in sealed archives in 1940. In his letters he has an extensive correspondence with Mr. Mattoon of the NSA Archives and strikes a deal to store all his original tablets, and relics in the basement of the Wilmette Temple, the archives are not to be opened by agreement until 1995. Mason has noted regarding his motives:
Mason on his archives:
"As I think I have told you, my records I consider to be of secondary or tertiary importance as compared with the records that the National Archives Committee are now amassing. The records that I have tell a very intimate story of the loofa of the Cause in this country during the past almost forty years. I have a mass of personal letters and newspaper clippings, photographs, publications and other documents (that in all probability would not be prized by the National Archives Committee at this time because more immediate and important things are before them.). However in seventy-five or a hundred years from now I feel that these things that I have accumulated will be of interest to those who come after us. These are things that no one perhaps but myself would thing of preserving at this time; however if history is going to repeat itself (as I feel it always practically does) the time will come when such a collection will be prized." CMR to Mattoon Spet. 26, 1938 Vol. 105
Not wishing these treasure to form a part of my estate I am arranging to give all outright to my executors, the National Savings and Trust Company of Washington, D.C., with the instruction that they keep this material intact until the year 1995 and then turn it all over to the National Spiritual Assembly of Baha's in America. I am providing, of course, the men of the storage and expenses of delivery.
I have two objects in mind in not having this material made available before the expiration of a period of years.
1st. It is comprised of a great deal of intimate and personal correspondences that had better not be given out now.
2nd. This material is of little or no importance now. I fact I doubt if anyone else buy myself would have made such a collection."
Letter to NSA Attn: horace holley, nov. 8, 1939 vol. 112