| Date: |
c. 1967 |
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Report of the Dean of Students |
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| Comments: |
This is page one, page two appears lost. |
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1967_report_of_dean.pdf |
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| Date: |
c. February 22, 1967 |
| Description: |
Undated letter to John Drew |
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Drew: "Vicarage Cottage (V.C.) was my mother's cottage at Farningham in Kent, a village less than 20 miles southeast of London. Once the vicar's gardener's cottage (between the Vicarage and the pub) my parents converted the small stabling-end into a separate one-up, one-down for my granny. I cannot now remember whether John wanted to stay there or as a paying guest with my mother." |
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1967_02_jb-to-jdrew.pdf |
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| Date: |
March 10, 1967 |
| Description: |
Signed letter from the members of the Shimer faculty to the Shimer College Board of Trust. |
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| Comments: |
First column: James Green, Curtis Larsen, "Mac" Gatch (not sure of his real first name -- maybe Milton?), John Hirschfield, Warren Miller, Elinor Miller, Alan Dowty. Second column: Harry Golding, Robert Jordan, Nancy Dowty, Donna Shaw, William Wendlandt, John Bellairs, Robert Hall, William Kreijci. Third row: Helen Dixon, Andy Armstrong, Stafford Davis. |
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1967_0310_faculty-sign.pdf |
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| Date: |
March 18, 1967 |
| Description: |
Various extracts from the minutes of 1966 and 1967 faculty meetings. |
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1967_0318_minutes_extract.pdf |
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| Date: |
April 8, 1967 |
| Description: |
Letter to Charles Bowen |
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| Comments: |
Bowen: "The bottom of the page is decorated with a face wearing a hat inscribed 'Lilliburlero Bowen A La.' Lilliburlero is an attractive Irish tune, whose nonsense-word chorus goes 'Lero, lero, lilliburlero; lilliburlero bullen a la.' John neatly substitutes 'Bowen' for "bullen.' 'Happy childhood' I assume is not a reference to anything special, but a wish for the baby." |
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1967_0408_jb-to-cbowen.pdf |
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| Date: |
July 16, 1967 |
| Description: |
Postcard to Charles Bowen, sent from London |
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| Comments: |
A Rembrandt painting in the National Gallery titled A Man seated Reading at a Table in a Lofty Room. The room is in shadow, except for sunlight falling on one wall. John has added a caption at the bottom: "If the light were better in here, I could read." |
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1967_0716_jb-to-cbowen.pdf |
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| Date: |
c. October-November 1967 |
| Description: |
Undated letter to Dale and Marilyn Fitschen, from England (probably Bristol) |
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Notes that he sent two copies of Prospero to "Lizavita," his editor. |
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| Date: |
December 3 and 5, 1967 |
| Description: |
Letters to Dale and Marilyn Fitschen, from Bristol |
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Sent Dale manuscript of The Paranoid Sunglasses for his opinion. Doesn't care for Dale's opinion and says he may come home before the end of the year. He signs the second letter "Tragically, Tufnell Park Pewsterhold." |
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| Date: |
December 9 , 1967 |
| Description: |
Letter to Dale and Marilyn Fitschen, from Bristol |
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Says "Lizzy" sent a letter today which amounts to acceptance of the Prospero book. She wants revisions, but is going to set up a contract. Says he'll be home in February, "but where to live? Boston?" |
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"We bake and mail a fruit cake and other goodies to John in Bristol, but he returns before Christmas and never receives it," says Marilyn Fitschen. |
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