Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane helps Library of Congress find Carl Sagan’s papers

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane helped acquire Carl Sagan's papers for the Library of Congress.

MacFarlane never owned Sagan's papers but paid for them to be donated to the library in order to be accessible to the public.

The papers are said to contain Sagan's filing drawer papers, including correspodence, a revised script for the movie "Contact," and drafts of academic articles, reported the Washington Post.

The donation was announced by the Library on Wednesday evening.

MacFarlane said he made the donation out of a deep respect for Sagan's work, which he read as a child.

“He was an enormous and profound influence in my life,” MacFarlane said, reported USA Today. 

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“All I did was write a check, but it’s something that was, to me, worth every penny,” MacFarlane told the Associated Press.

“He’s a man whose life’s work should be accessible to everybody.”

Sagan was a planetary astronomer and professor at Cornell University.

He was best known as the host of the PBS series "Cosmos" and the author of the book "Contact," which was later made into a movie.

MacFarlane is the creator of popular television shows "Family Guy," "American Dad," and "The Cleveland Show."