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Sub-Section I.1: Mother Teresa (1910-1997) and Lou Torok (1927-2000) Collection

Record Series: 1: Correspondence from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok

Series Description

16 original letters and 2 photocopies from 1991-1997.

Subjects List

Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997 |
Torok, Lou |

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Arrangement and Processing Notes:

This Sub-Section is divided into records series. It shares a box with Sub-Section I.2.

Materials were accessioned and described in 1998. Arrangement and description by Theresa H. Sandok, O.S.M. Prepared for the web and updated by Mark Meade in 2016.

Container List

Box#-FF#Item#DateNotesFirst Lines
1 - 1 1 1991 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you for your letter and thank God for all the good He is doing in and through you - especially to the prisoners»
1 - 1 2 1992 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you for your letter. I am glad to hear you are free from the past and making use of the present to grow in the love of God»
1 - 1 3 1992 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you for your sharing. It is beautiful to know how you have allowed the simple words of someone so far away»
1 - 1 4 1992 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you for your assurance of prayers for me. Enough has already been written about us and so I do not see the need for another book.»
1 - 1 5 1992 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you very much for your letter and the enclosed copy of the proclamation issued by the Governor of the State of Montana.»
1 - 1 6 1993 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you very much for your letter. You may take the quotations from my letters. But I would like to know the quotations»
1 - 1 7 1993 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you very much for your letter and the enclosures. Let us do all for the glory of God through Mary. The work is God's work -»
1 - 1 8 1993 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you very much for your letter. Jesus loves you so much. He is your very special friend. Now is the time in your life»
1 - 1 9 1993 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «This brings you my prayers and wishes, and those of our sisters and poor. Thank you for your letter and your prayers.»
1 - 1 10 1993 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «I received your Christmas circular letter. Let us thank God together for all the blessings He is pouring out upon you in these days.»
1 - 1 11 1994 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok (December 1994 or January 1995) «Thank you for your letters. As much as I would wish to answer each one of them, I regret my inability to do so.»
1 - 1 12 1996 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you very much for your concern and prayers. My gratitude for you is my prayer for you, that when Christ come to you»
1 - 1 13 1996 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «I have received the leaflets on 'Love Day' attached with the 'State Proclaimation [sic] paper'. Let us continue to work,»
1 - 1 14 1996 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok (received 1996) / correction to Love Day proclamation "Random kindness and selfless acts of love" «Thank you for your letter and the enclosure. We are returning it to you with a correction on the first page, last line»
1 - 1 15 1997 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «I wish you a very Holy and Happy Easter. May the Joy and Love for the Risen Christ be always with you and within you»
1 - 1 16 1997 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok / addressed "Lou Torok and all my friends in EKY Corr. Complex" «Thank you very much for your prayers and concern. May this new Year bring you the joy, peace and love of Christ.»
1 - 1 17 1997 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok «Thank you for your kind letter, and for your prayers and those of your friends. If it is God's will, I will be able to visit Kentucky.»
1 - 1 18 1997 Letter from Mother Teresa to Lou Torok / note by Torok, "This was written in the final weeks of her life in 1997 - from her hospital bed." «Thank you for your letters. As much I would wish to answer each one of them, I regret my inability to do so.»

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