Descriptive Summary
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Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
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Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Atkinson Foundation: Albert Schweitzer Letters Collection
Dates: 1956-1964
Collector:
Atkinson Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.)
Collection Size:
.1 linear feet (6 folders)
Repository: The Graduate Theological Union. Library.
Abstract: The collection contains thank you letters from Albert Schweitzer to the Atkinson Foundation for monetary gifts to the general
hospital and leper village in Lambarn, Gabon. There are five letters and two photographs with description, written between
1956-1964.
Physical location: Small Collections Box 17, ff 17-22, 5/G/1
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
French
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological Union
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
Atkinson Foundation: Albert Schweitzer Letters Collection, Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.
Acquisition Information
Gift of the Atkinson Foundation, San Mateo, California.
Processing Information
Albert Schweitzer was a theologian, author, musician, and medical missionary. In 1913, he founded a hospital in Lambarn, Gabon,
in French Equatorial Africa to which he devoted his entire life. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.
Biography / Administrative History
Collection contains five letters and two photographs. Written between 1956-1964, these are thank you letters from Albert Schweitzer
to the Atkinson Foundation for monetary gifts to the general hospital and leper village in Lambarn, Gabon. Four of the letters
are addressed to Donald K. Grant at the Foundation. Each letter has a portion in English. One letter is written by Marion
Mill Preminger, four by Ari Silver. Each letter then has a separate portion hand-written in French by Schweitzer. All letters
have English translations. One photograph of the Ogoou River and Lambarn. One photograph of Schweitzer at the leper village.
Scope and Content of Collection
Five letters and two signed photographs from Albert Schweitzer with English translations. Letters are dated February 17, 1956;
February 6, 1960; February 14, 1962; March 28, 1963; and January 8, 1964.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965--Correspondence.
Silver, Ari--Correspondence.
Preminger, Marion Mill--Correspondence.
Grant, Donald K.--Correspondence.
Atkinson Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.)
Missionaries, Medical--Gabon--Lambarene--Correspondence.
Missions to lepers--Gabon--Lambarene--Correspondence.
Hospitals--Gabon--Lambarene.
Lambarene (Moyen-Ogooue, Gabon)--Missions--Correspondence.
Genres and Forms of Material
Correspondence.
Index Terms Related to this Collection
Silver, Ari.
Preminger, Marion Mill.
Grant, Donald K., recipient.
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