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to Margaret Sullavan

Contract amendments for Sullavan's role in the motion picture "Mississippi Gambler." Signed by Universal's vice president and assistant secretary, and Margaret Sullavan. With accompanying photograph (GLC05508.239.02).

GLC05508.239.01

[Photograph of Margaret Sullavan]

Publicity shot for "Appointment for Love." Photo by Ray Jones, costume by Muriel King. Accompanied contract amendments for "Mississippi Gambler" (GLC05508.239.01). 1941 photograph of Rita Hayworth by George Hurrell, for Warner Bros., on verso.

GLC05508.239.02

to Karl

Sunday remarks that he is ill because of overwork. He believes God will heal him and asks Karl to pray for him. Signed "W.A. Sunday." Accompanied by photograph (GLC05508.242.02).

GLC05508.242.01

[Photograph of Billy Sunday].

Handwritten commentary on veracity of Christ's miracles. Signed "W.A. Sunday. Psalm 34." Accompanies letter to Karl (GLC05508.242.01).

GLC05508.242.02

to Eireni

Mother Teresa thanks Eireni for her concern during a recent illness. The letter is typed on a card with Mother Teresa's picture on it. There is a printed prayer on verso.

GLC05508.243.01

to Eirene Mowji

Mother Teresa writes to Mowji and gives her advice regarding a friend's brother who is taking drugs. Mother Teresa will pray for him and apparently enclosed a "miraculous medal" for the addict to wear during prayer.

GLC05508.243.02

to Rev. & Mrs. Chas O'Hara

Mother Teresa writes to the O'Hara's to congratulate them on their 50th wedding anniversary.

GLC05508.243.03

[God is love...]

A Missionaries of Charity card, with Mother Teresa's picture, that reads: "God is love, and he who abides in God abides in love, and he who abides in love, abides in God."

GLC05508.243.04

to Earl Hunt

Mother Teresa writes to Bishop Hunt: "Be holy. Because Jesus who has chosen you to be His own is Holy."

GLC05508.243.05

[Photograph of Mother Teresa]

GLC05508.243.06

to Mr. Herron

Tolstoy writes that he received several of Herron's books and will start reading "The Christian State" in the hopes that it will induce him to read them all. When he is finished he will write a letter with his opinion of the book (see GLC05508.245...

GLC05508.245.01

to Mr. Herron

Tolstoy critiques Herron's book, "The Christian State." He agrees with Herron's view of Christianity as a "politic and economic doctrine." He was especially struck by Herron's "denunciation of the American people for not having fulfilled its...

GLC05508.245.02

[Excerpt from a statement by Dr. Wernher von Braun].

A partial reproduction of a statement by von Braun that originally appeared in an article contained in "This Week Magazine," included with the Charlotte Observer issue of July 18, 1965. The statement was from a interview discussing the relationship...

GLC05508.249.01

[Photograph of Dr. Wernher von Braun]

Accompanies von Braun's autographed quotation (GLC05508.249.01).

GLC05508.249.02

to Mrs. White

Waugh writes to thank White for her compliments on the book, "Helena," on which Waugh worked hardest but is least popular. Waugh suggests reading her "Life of Ronald Knox," and congratulates White on her recent conversion to Catholicism. Waugh...

GLC05508.257.01

to Mrs. White

Waugh writes to White thanking her for new pictures of the revised Catholic mass (after Vatican II, said in the vernacular language), and expresses her dislike of it. She graciously declines White's suggestion to write a book on the martyrs. She...

GLC05508.257.02

to Lord Bishop

Waugh writes to an unknown bishop declining a proposal of his for writing a work (unknown topic). She discusses martyrs of the English Counter-Reformation.

GLC05508.257.03

to Maria Child

Discusses the Yearly Quaker Meeting he just returned from, in addition to speakers at Garrison's funeral and William Lloyd Garrison's views on the after life. Whittier is "shocked by the barbarism & superstition of our popular faith." He says...

GLC05508.262.01

[For still the unseen spirit walks...]

Whittier writes a poem: "For still the unseen spirit walks/ The garden of the heart, and talks/ With man, as under Eden's trees,/ In all his varied languages."

GLC05508.262.02

to Atlee Kohl

Response to Kohl's solicitation letter. DeLuise writes of the things that strengthen his belief in God: his children growing, his mother baking Easter bread, his wife at work and play, rain on the garden, and warming sunshine. He emphasizes the...

GLC05508.284.01

[Photograph of Dom Deluise]

Photograph included with response to Kohl's solicitation letter (GLC05508.248.01). Signed "To Robert."

GLC05508.284.02

to Atlee Kohl

Response to Kohl's solicitation letter. Lear's letter talks about things he would pack for his "spiritual journey": words of Jesus, memories of individuals he's loved in a Christian way, religious writings of George Bernard Shaw and Ralph Waldo...

GLC05508.287.01

[Photograph of Norman Lear]

Photograph accompanying letter to Kohl (GLC05508.287.01). Autographed "For Leo Sylvor[,] With affection and respect".

GLC05508.287.02

to Atlee Kohl

Response to Kohl's solicitation letter. Peal expresses his belief in the Holy Trinity and that God can be sought out to right wrongs. In closing, Peale writes: "I believe that the values, ideals and principles upon which our country grew and has...

GLC05508.289.01

[Photograph of Norman Vincent Peale]

Photograph accompanying Peale's letter to Atlee Kohl (GLC05508.289.01). Autographed "To George R. Sauders/ God bless you."

GLC05508.289.02