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TAGS: Mary Rockwell Hook, correspondence 1933, Mrs. Inghram D. Hook, Glyn Morris, Open House, donations, Mary Gilson, student applications, architecture, architects

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MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Correspondence 1933 Box 18: 2-33

June 23, 1933 -September 2(?), 1933
Letters primarily between Mary Rockwell Hook and Glyn Morris, Director

Mary Rockwell Hook (1877 – 1978)
School Architect and Consultant 1913 through c. 1968
Member, PMSS Board of Trustees

CONTENTS

[Note: Letters from PMSS staff in the PMSS Collections are carbon copies, typewritten, unsigned, and meant for the Office files. The original signed copies were sent to the correspondents. The initials at the bottom left of most PMSS letters indicate the writer (along with initials of the secretary). For example, “GM” are the initials for Glyn Morris, Director. The postcards from Mary Rockwell Hook are handwritten. The following list of contents is in chronological order and not necessarily in order of the image numbers.]

001 N.D. (Notation in top margin: June 25, 1933). Postcard to “Mr. (Glyn) Morris” from “Mary Rockwell Hook,” Black Mountain, NC, asking if he has returned yet. Tells him she and the boys are planning to “walk over Pine Mt. for at least a night.”

002 Aug 6, (no year). Postcard to “Mr. Morris” from “Mary R. Hook,” who has sent the School bathing suits and other things for the girls and boys. She is sorry Mary Gilson is ill and cannot visit PMSS; asks if Open House is repaired.

004 August 9, 1944. To “Mrs. Hook” in Kansas City, Mo., from Glyn Morris, Director, thanking her for the gift of clothing and bathing outfits. The School received 400 student applications but only 120 children could be accepted. 

003 August 22, 1933. To “Mrs. Hook” from Glyn Morris, Director. “Open House is at the present time housing nine boys and a worker.” 

005 September 2(?), 1933. To “Mrs. Hook” from (unsigned), who asks for a donation for installing a furnace at Zande House.

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GALLERY

Box 18 – Folder 2-33 (5 items)

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See Also:
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Album I – Full Pages
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK PHOTO ALBUM II Part I – Individual Photos

MARY ROCKWELL HOOK AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1970 This and That
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK – Biography

Return To:
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Correspondence Guide

PMSS BEREA SERIES I-III Container List 1911-1983 BOXES 1-54 Guide

1932  Box 18 – 2-26

1933  Box 18 – 2-33

1934  Box 18 – 2-40

1935  Box 18 – 2-47

1936  Box 18 – 2-51

1937  Box 18 – 2-59

For 1938 – 1947, see MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Correspondence Guide

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