| Date: |
January 11, 1968 |
| Description: |
Letter to Gerald Kadish, from England |
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Says that he will be sailing back to the US from England on January 19, on the Queen Elizabeth (which, he notes, looks "disturbingly like the Titanic") and that the publication of The Pedant and Shuffly is imminent. |
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| Date: |
February 8, 1968 |
| Description: |
Letter from Elizabeth Bartelme, the Macmillan Company, New York, to Dale and Marilyn Fitschen. |
| Comments: |
She writes that she had lunch with John in New York. They "discussed The Face in the Frost at some length and he is going to do revisions." She notes that The Pedant and the Shuffly will be published on February 26th. |
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| Date: |
March, 1968 |
| Description: |
Hand-written dedication to Pat Thomas in The Pedant and the Shuffly. |
| Comments: |
Thomas: "There is a drawing of a goofy bishop and banner proclaiming, 'Greed is the Foundation of Love.' On the same page is a black-tinted fist clutching a picket sign emblazoned 'Mary See is a Honky.'" |
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1968_thomas-ded-ps.pdf |
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| Date: |
March, 1968 |
| Description: |
Hand-written dedication to Al Myers's family in The Pedant and the Shuffly. |
| Text: |
Myers: To the Duchess of Desmond, seine Herr, Timothy J. Katt, le Bébé, love, greetings, & Happy St. Patrick's Day. "The Duchess is my mother; seine Herr, my father; and their two cats. This is garnished with a drawing of a shamrock and a hostile-looking bishop with 'zed' written on his hat. The bishop is saying, 'I can still beat you at scrabble.'" |
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1968_ded-jb-myers-ps.pdf |
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| Date: |
April 22 , 1968 |
| Description: |
Letter to Dale and Marilyn Fitschen |
| Comments: |
Al Myers visited and they rented a car and went to Cape Cod. Says he took the corrected Prospero to Mary-Claire Stubbs to get it typed. He also says he just "wrapped up The Paranoid Sunglasses and The Pouty King and my bishop drawings and sent them to Joel Wells, editor of The Critic. |
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| Date: |
c. June, 1968 |
| Description: |
Wedding Announcement sent to Dale and Marilyn Fitschen. |
| Comments: |
Marilyn Fitschen: "I think Priscilla hand-lettered the card and John wrote the personal note - but it is John's humor. The bishops or clerics changed with every piece of correspondence." |
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| Date: |
June 26, 1968 |
| Description: |
Letter to Dale and Marilyn Fitschen, from Boston |
| Comments: |
"Got a tumble from Emmanuel College, a good Catholic girls school out on the Hagway in Boston near Hagway Park." Went to a rally for Eugene McCarthy where Alan Arkin read from Catch 22. |
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| Date: |
c.1968-69 |
| Description: |
John Bellairs' illustrated version of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." |
| Comments: |
Marilyn Fitschen: "These drawings were made in blue ink on both sides of cheap typing paper. While the text is verbatim from Coleridge, we're sure John wrote it from memory." |
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1968_rime_ancient_mariner.pdf |
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