BIB_ID
443174
Accession number
MA 23788.6
Creator
Hesburgh, Theodore M. (Theodore Martin), 1917-2015, recipient, sender.
Display Date
Melrose Park, Illinois ; Notre Dame, Indiana, between 1990 and 1992.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 29 x 22 cm
Notes
Letter written by John Stanger to Theodore Hesburgh, with Hesburgh's unsigned reply written between the body of the letter and Stanger's signature.
Original letter addressed to "The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, STD / President Emeritus / The University of Notre Dame / Notre Dame, Indiana 46556"
Original letter addressed from "Melrose Park School / 1715 Lake Street / Melrose Park, Ill. 60160."
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives (MA 23788). Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Original letter addressed to "The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, STD / President Emeritus / The University of Notre Dame / Notre Dame, Indiana 46556"
Original letter addressed from "Melrose Park School / 1715 Lake Street / Melrose Park, Ill. 60160."
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives (MA 23788). Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, 2022.
Summary
(In Stanger's hand) requesting what book(s) have had the greatest impact on him; (in Hesburgh's hand) naming the New Testament, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Parkman's Oregon Trail, and Amundsen's South to the Pole.
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