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Merton's Correspondence with:

John Pick

Pick, John, 1911-1981  printer

 
 

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1965
Volume: 19 item(s); 19 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

John Pick was a professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was chairman of the University Committee on the Fine Arts and arranged to have a display of Merton's calligraphic drawings, entitled "Forty-Three Signatures", displayed at Marquette.

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Related Information and Links

See also the "Lurana, Mary" and the "Hoare, Gabriel Mary" files.

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1. 1965/02/01 TALS to Merton I write in great excitement. This morning I received a letter from our good mutual friend, Sister «detailed view»
2. 1965/02/06 TL[c] from Merton I have your good letter of the third. Quite possibly I can let you have the "signatures" either «detailed view»
3. 1965/02/09 TLS to Merton I was delighted with your prompt reply and with the cordiaity [sic] of your response. «detailed view»
4. 1965/02/12 TAL[c] from Merton I am asking the people at Xavier University in New Orleans to ship the drawings to you as soon «detailed view»
5. 1965/02/16 TLS to Merton The kind words about the Hopkins book coming from you meant a great deal to me; these days I'm «detailed view»
6. 1965/02/18 TAL[c] from Merton The Signatures ought to be on the way to you by now. I suppose Sr Lurana, of Xavier University, «detailed view»
7. 1965/02/20 TLS to Merton This will be merely a hurried little business memorandum requiring no reply. Yesterday the nun «detailed view»
8. 1965/02/22 (#01) TLS to Merton Your letter of the 18th arrived today, and I feel confident that the Forty-Three Signatures will be «detailed view»
9. 1965/02/22 (#02) TL[c] to Hoare, Gabriel Mary As you probably know we will be having Thomas Merton's FORTY-THREE SIGNATURES for exhibition [from Pick to Sr. Gabriel Mary Hoare of Webster College in St. Louis, Missouri - see "Hoare, Gabriel Mary" file] «detailed view»
10. 1965/02/22 (#03) TL[c] to Lurana, Mary I was most grateful for all your trouble in telephoning me by long distance recently, and this will [from Pick to Sr. Lurana of Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana - see also the "Lurana, Mary" file] «detailed view»
11. 1965/02/24 TL[c] to Lurana, Mary I was most grateful for all your trouble in telephoning me by long distance recently, and this will [from Pick to Sr. Lurana of Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana - see also the "Lurana, Mary" file] «detailed view»
12. 1965/02/26 TLS to Lurana, Mary Today I checked over carefully the inventory of Thomas Merton's drawings (an exciting adventure [from Pick to Sr. Lurana of Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana - see also the "Lurana, Mary" file] «detailed view»
13. 1965/03/01 TALS to Merton I'm sending you a few copies of the catalogue which just came from the mimeographers. «detailed view»
14. 1965/03/03 TAL[c] from Merton It is a relief to learn that the exhibit arrived safely, but above all I am grateful for your most «detailed view»
15. 1965/03/11 HLS to Merton Here's a little batch of clippings (including the New Orleans one and a few duplicates); I'm also «detailed view»
16. 1965/03/16 HLS to Merton Enclosed are just the clippings. At all events people will have heard of the scholarship «detailed view»
17. 1965/03/26 TLS to Merton This is am [sic] embarrassing letter to write; I had so much hoped it would be different. The sad «detailed view»
18. 1965/03/30 TAL[c] from Merton Thanks for your "embarrassing letter" which, though I regret you had trouble writing it, caused no «detailed view»
19. 1965/07/06 HLS to Merton I am thrilled and delighted - today the picture arrived from Sister Mary Gabriel of Webster Grove. «detailed view»

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