Teilhard de Chardin to Lucile Swan, 1948-07-06

File — Box: 2, Folder: 38

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Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This series contains correspondence from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to Lucile Swan and from Claude Cuenot to Lucile Swan, most of which appear in The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan edited by Thomas M. King, SJ, and Mary Wood Gilbert (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1993). The pages on which the published letters appear are indicated in this finding aid in parentheses, e.g., (p. 20).

Dates

Creation: 1948-07-06

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Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

From the Collection: French

Additional Description

Container Summary

Contains TLS in English and French from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to Lucile Swan (2 pages/2 sheets with postmarked envelope). Written from Paris. With references to poor health; invitation from the College de France to accept a chair in prehistory; to friends, including Ida Treat Bergeret, Robert Faure, Pierre Leroy, Francoise Raphael, Malvina Hoffman; and to meeting Aldous Huxley briefly at a meeting of the World congress for the Union of Faiths. (p.231-33)

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

BERGERET, IDA TREAT - REFERENCE 1948: Typed Letter Signed

FAURE, ROBERT - REFERENCE 1948: Typed Letter Signed

LEROY, PIERRE - REFERENCE 1948: Typed Letter Signed

RAPHAEL, FRANCOISE - REFERENCE 1948: Typed Letter Signed

HOFFMAN, MALVINA - REFERENCE 1948: Typed Letter Signed

HUXLEY, ALDOUS - REFERENCE 1948: Typed Letter Signed

TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, PIERRE - CORRES. TO SWAN, LUCILE 1948 (07/06): Typed Letter Signed

SWAN, LUCILE - CORRES. FROM TEILHARD DE CHARDIN 1948 (07/06): Typed Letter Signed