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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Pick, John, 1911-1981

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1965

Volume: 19 item(s); 19 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Pick, John".

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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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1965/02/01 TALSto MertonI write in great excitement. This morning I received a letter from our good mutual friend, Sister   
 1965/02/06 TL[c]from MertonI have your good letter of the third. Quite possibly I can let you have the "signatures" either   
 1965/02/09 TLSto MertonI was delighted with your prompt reply and with the cordiaity [sic] of your response.   
 1965/02/12 TAL[c]from MertonI am asking the people at Xavier University in New Orleans to ship the drawings to you as soon   
 1965/02/16 TLSto MertonThe kind words about the Hopkins book coming from you meant a great deal to me; these days I'm   
 1965/02/18 TAL[c]from MertonThe Signatures ought to be on the way to you by now. I suppose Sr Lurana, of Xavier University,   
 1965/02/20 TLSto MertonThis will be merely a hurried little business memorandum requiring no reply. Yesterday the nun   
 1965/02/22 (#01)TLSto MertonYour letter of the 18th arrived today, and I feel confident that the Forty-Three Signatures will be   
 1965/02/22 (#02)TL[c]to Hoare, Gabriel MaryAs 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]
 1965/02/22 (#03)TL[c]to Lurana, MaryI 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]
 1965/02/24 TL[c]to Lurana, MaryI 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]
 1965/02/26 TLSto Lurana, MaryToday 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]
 1965/03/01 TALSto MertonI'm sending you a few copies of the catalogue which just came from the mimeographers.   
 1965/03/03 TAL[c]from MertonIt is a relief to learn that the exhibit arrived safely, but above all I am grateful for your most   
 1965/03/11 HLSto MertonHere's a little batch of clippings (including the New Orleans one and a few duplicates); I'm also   
 1965/03/16 HLSto MertonEnclosed are just the clippings. At all events people will have heard of the scholarship   
 1965/03/26 TLSto MertonThis is am [sic] embarrassing letter to write; I had so much hoped it would be different. The sad   
 1965/03/30 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for your "embarrassing letter" which, though I regret you had trouble writing it, caused no   
 1965/07/06 HLSto MertonI am thrilled and delighted - today the picture arrived from Sister Mary Gabriel of Webster Grove.   
        

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