Correspondence with Zohmah, 1951

Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. 1951. Jean Charlot Collection, Correspondence, "Jean Charlot to Zohmah Day Charlot". Box 2, folder 1.

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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: May 23, 1951. Three sheets.

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Sheet 1 of 3. Text begins:

Thursday
Zohmah dearest
First, a kiss for our marriage anniversary. [drawing: a kiss with wings]
I hope that the trip was not too hard.

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not serve in case you visit. End of semester is heavy work at school.

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Sheet 3 of 3. Text begins:

Saturday, Cocroft has asked me to be on her radio program at noon, to review my book. Then I told May we would lunch together and go to sketch hau trees for the nural.

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I see in Kistler's letter a night train (Southern Pacific) leaving L.A. 11.30 pm arrving Phoenix 12.30 next day.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: May 25, 1951.
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Zohmah dearest
Am writing on Marvel's typewriter.
I asked our statement at the bank: 976.00 left. Then there is the ticker: 184.., 250 travelers checks, 50 cash.

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1949, so when I told them it was 1939, they were uneasy about it all.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: May 28, 1951.
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Zohmah dearest
This is Monday morning. I was expecting a letter, but nothing yet. Maybe later.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: May 30, 1951.
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[pencil] Wednesday
[typed]Zohmah dearest
It was nice getting your little note and thank you for the citizenship paper. Today is a holiday so there is no mail here.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 4, 1951.
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[letterhead]
Arizona State College
Tempe, Arizona

Monday
Zohmah dearest
It was nice to have the Sunday the family together. The train was uneventful. I slept well.

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paper yet, no scaffold.
Tomorrow morning I will meet the class, expected to be about twenty.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 6, 1951.
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Wed. morning
Zohmah dearest
Yesterday morning first meeting of class. A dozen students.

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dormitory. Perhaps she has a furnished appt. in Tempe.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 7, 1951.
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Thursday
Dearest, Still no letter from you.
The class is of enough interest to 'cool' me off, while awaiting the scaffold for the fresco.

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She did not volunteer any help herself. Says her sister is very sick and cannot receive at home.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 8, 1951.
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Friday
Dearest, I had a postcard from you, saying you stay near Prue. Am mailing w. this a bunch of postcards for the children. Hope it does not give them Arizona nostalgia.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 8 (?), 1951.
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Dearest, Not very much new. The boxes from the A.A.A. w. pictures and the U.H. drawings are still unopened.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 9–10, 1951.
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Dearest, Saturday there were no classes. Kloster was nowhere to be found, to open the boxes of ptgs.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 11, 1951.
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Dearest, had a letter from you, really the first as the other was so short.

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Perhaps we should write Sid Stallings and ask him to ship our papers to us, whatever he had with him.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 13, 1951.
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Dearest, yesterday Tuesday was the opening of the show.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 14 or 15, 1951.
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Dearest, time delay w. job. The metal workers have a priority job in town, so the rail will not be up before next Wednesday, that is the 20th.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 16, 1951.
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Dearest, had a letter from you. Sorry the mcKibbons are leaving; they were good at taking the children off your hands.

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Back in the evening. I still wonder what they do with tourists.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 18, 1951.
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Dearest, yesterday was Father's day and I was a little wistful without a telegram.
Went to the President like I told you, and impressed him with the urgency of getting at the wall.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 19, 1951.
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[letterhead]
Arizona State College
Tempe, Arizona

Dearest, yesterday (Monday) I had a nasty jolt when John Ormai walked in my fresco classroom. Says he lives in Phoenix.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 19, 1951.
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Dearest, the little note of Ann, for Father's day cheered me up.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 21, 1951.
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Dearest, yesterday Wednesday the scaffold was up and we started on the wall.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Three postcards. Postmarked: June 21, 1951.

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Postcard 1 of 3. Postmarked: Tempe, AZ, June 21, 1951, 12:30PM. Text:

[address]
Miss Ann Charlot co Plowe
637 1/2 N. Berendo
Los Angeles Cal

[return address]
Charlot. Art Dept. State College. Tempe Arizona

Dear Ann, this is my favorite restaurant. Do have a good time in camp. Wish I could be with you. Thank you for your very nice letter for Fathers day. Kisses.
Jean Papa.

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[printed drawing]

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Postcard 2 of 3. Postmarked: Tempe, AZ, June 21, 1951, 12:30PM. Text:

[address]
Mr John Charlot c.o. Plowe
637 1/2 N. Berendo
Los Angeles Cal.

Johnny dear
Hope you like camp. This is the first Indian I have seen! Much love, Papa

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[printed drawing]

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Postcard 3 of 3. Postmarked: Tempe, AZ, June 21, 1951, 12:30PM. Text:

[address]
Mr Martin Charlot c/o Plowe
637 1/2 N. Berendo
Los Angeles Cal.

Dear son, here is a photograph of your papa taking his morning exercise. Have a good time in camp.
Love, Papa

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[printed drawing]
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 22, 1951.
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Friday
Dearest, Yesterday began to draw cartoon. The boys have done a good job of stretching the paper on the wall, which makes it easier, but there are too many scaffolds parts in the way.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: ca. June 23, 1951.
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Dearest, mostly work on cartoon. Top part of other groups. Main difficulty is the diminishing scale, w. all details to correspond.

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Jean
[drawing: heart with "Z."]
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 25, 1951.
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Dearest, Saturday, went on w. the cartoon. The scale is all right, and very few changes needed from the small model.

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bell ringer squatting in a strip of shade under the adobe tower looked exactly like the old man who sells hats in Tito's Hats.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 26, 1951.
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Dearest, so you noticed I write everyday. That is true, I write early morning, before going to work.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 27, 1951.
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Dearest, enclosed a letter from Ormai. I hope it is the last we hear from him.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 28, 1951.
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Dearest, yesterday was first day of painting, but also full of trouble.

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I worked until 6. P. M. then went to see my show w. Fr. Fitzgerald. He wants to take Spanish this Summer.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 29, 1951.
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Dearest, yesterday, Thursday, a quieter day. We pted the second piece of the fresco, the smaller group of Indians seen at a distance.

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Had a letter from John Salter, inviting me to Flagstaff, where he teaches art.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: June 30, 1951.
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Saturday
Dearest, today no work. I needed the rest. Plan to go to Phoenix. Will try to locate Fr. Dunn.

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upper one. He will demonstrate on television the 'milking' of a snake, take poison off the fangs, Monday.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 2, 1951.
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Monday.
Dearest, I feel rested after the weekend. Saturday I did not work on the wall.

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Says Tamara dates her art from my teaching. She has N.Y. shows now and is rather well known as a modern.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 3, 1951.

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Date from diary: July 3, 1951.
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Tuesday.
Dearest, had a letter from you. Yes, would like d'Harnoncourt catalogue. Enclosed clipping from Flagstaff, where I will be this evening, sent by Salter.

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Then went to a student, Edythe West, for a snack and beer.

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Newspaper clipping. Text begins:

[pencil]
Phoenix paper
[print]
San Francisco
A philosphy professor from Honolulu Wednesday cashed in on an airline's offer to fly families at half fare.
Dr. John Wu, his wife, and eight of their 13 children will board a United Air Lines plane for New York.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 4, 1951. Two sheets.

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Sheet 1 of 2. Text begins:

Flagstaff
July 4. Wednesday.
Dearest
Yesterday morning, the mason put up the cement dado, or transition border between halves of the wall, behind the stairs.

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Mrs Kerr, the mother of Tamita. It is quite isolated.

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After the show the Indians go back to their camps under the pine-trees and chant and beat drums all night. They are still at it this morning.

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Preis children and another for ours.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 5, 1951.
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Thursday
Dearest, back in Tempe. We arrived 1.A.M. Yesterday, I had slept at Salter.

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Indian brass bands w. Indian maidens in costume acting as drum majorettes!
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 6, 1951.
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Friday
Dearest, another Ormai letter. This one is clearly an attempt at blackmail and threatens bodily harm. You would do well to see father Dunn.

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that I will go and trace after I mail this letter.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 7, 1951.
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Saturday
Dearest, yesterday we painted the last task on the top fresco, the lower left of the triangle where it touches the ground.

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then we took Fr.Mac to the airport, his plane leaving at 10 P.M.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 8, 1951.
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[letterhead]
Arizona State College
Tempe, Arizona

Monday.
Dearest, Saturday we cleaned up the classrooms and took off the student show from the library.

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had brought a large news camera w. flash, but nobody knew how.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 10, 1951.
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Tuesday
Dearest, yesterday we finished the upper part, that is cutting parts to be changed and redoing them.

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and the mural problem in better shape.
I miss you awful much, especially now that I have a double bed.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 11, 1951.
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[letterhead]
Arizona State College
Tempe, Arizona

Wednesday.
Dearest, it is nice to know that we have a beach house. It solves so many problems that I think it is cheap.

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term. Also if need be, I have another place where they could sleep.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 12, 1951.
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Thursday
Dearest, I will do what I can about J.O. I was a little disappointed when the letters came back, as I wanted them in the hands of a third person.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 13, 1951.
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[letterhead]
Arizona State College
Tempe, Arizona

Friday
Dearest, I began the day w. a visit to Stahnke, to sketch a position of his hand. Began the new composition.

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the wall, and give us one.
Give me Sid's private address. I will write him.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 14, 1951.
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Saturday
Dearest, yesterday Lowell and friend met me at the Adm. Bldg, and made photog. Lowell's color plates were not sensitive enough for the inside light,

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I had S.W. send a Father Treze book and a Fr. X. and gave them yesterday to the priests.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 15–16, 1951.
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Sunday
Dearest, yesterday was a last meeting w. my first group of students, extra curricular.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 16, 1951.
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Tuesday
Dearest, have a new student, the vast lady who came from Hawaii, and dressed in a mumu for my opening.

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review in Mag. Of Art" and the Editor got hold of a list where it was so mentioned and wrote me a barely polite letter saying she wanted her copy.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 18, 1951.
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Wednesday. Dearest, if you have not received letters every day it must be because they were sent to Prudence's address and will be forwarded. The only day I do not mail is Sunday.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 19, 1951. Two sheets.

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Copy of letter written by Charles Martin to the Backenstens:

Dear Backenstens,
We have just returned from Tempe after seeing Charlot and his mural.

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Page 2 - Charles Martin

The lower area is depicting the milking of rattlesnakes, showing two huge hands, one holding a syringe, the other forcing the snake's head over a receptacle, all being done in a squarish straight line design.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 19, 1951.
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Thursday.
Dearest, morning, gave a lecture, or rather a second half of the lecture I had started a week ago to my class, plus the students of Miss Bergamo.

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Will miss him when he is away//in sunny Hawaii.
She is writing the music for it now.
Much love ****** Jean
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 20, 1951.
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Friday. Dearest, yesterday, second day on the fresco. We had better luck and smoother cooperation.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 21, 1951.
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Saturday. Dearest, does Johnny mind wearing glasses? Tell him Papa did too at his age.

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Maybe will go to Phoenix today for a change, and get a Guadalupe image to help me w. my ptg.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 22, 1951.
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Sunday. Dearest: yesterday wrote answers to accumulated letters, May, Emily, etc..., plus fanmail.

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Sunday did not do much. More letters, and went to Phoenix alone to a movie, a kind of thief of Bagdad in color.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 24, 1951.
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Tuesday.
Dearest I was sorry to hear that you had been sick. I hope you are all well now.

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to do of her. Tomorrow a lecture on murals. Am sorting now the slides.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 24, 1951.
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[top left corner]
Also received copies of good night book. Colors again all different. The yellow is better and the grey worse. It looks nice though. Will send you one.

Tuesday evening. Writing now instead of tomorrow because will leave early to go get Emily in Phoenix.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 26, 1951.
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Thursday.
Dearest, Emily is here. The last I had of her was saying she would come by train, so inveigled a student to take me to Phoenix yesterday to meet the 8.20.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 27, 1951.
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Friday.
Zohmah dearest: Will leave at 2 w. Emily and Mrs Kerr and daughter for her ranch for the weekend.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 29, 1951. Two sheets.

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Sheet 1 of 2. Date from diary: July 29, 1951. Text begins:

Sunday.
Dearest, am writing from the ranch, and will post this from where I will go to Mass, which is near a mining ghost town on a mountain, called Jerome.

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three high ladders. It is quite complicated inside, w. five stories and defensive arrangements.

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[drawing: study for Preparing Anti-Venom Serum]
scorpion ring
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: July 31, 1951.
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Tuesday.
Dearest, glad you like the necklace. There is another one, still older, I think, that I keep here for you.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: August 1, 1951.
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Wednesday.
Dearest, I can't find anymore pretty paper. It is nice that the time is nearer when we will be together again.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: August 2, 1951.
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Thursday.
Dearest, with your coming soon, this letter may cross one of yours, telling what you will do, so disregard it if it says different.
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Correspondence with Zohmah. Jean Charlot. Date from diary: August 3, 1951.
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Friday.
Dearest, it was so nice to hear your voice after so long. Also to make plans.

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