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- Thirty-eight letters and four postcards from Irene Zelinski to Maria Chabot, October 10, 1955 – February 11, 1963 are contained in this box. Four letters, Oct. 10 – 13, 1955, written by Zelinski from San Francisco to Chabot at Los Luceros, concern caring for Georgeanna Wight, whom she has taken from Santa Fe where Wight had a mental breakdown to San Francisco for psychiatric care. Four letters, Jan. 25, 1956 – Dec. 2, 1956, detail the difficulties Zelinski has caring for Wight. Her letter of April 21, 1956 contains comments by Zelinski on Chabot's short story, "The Curtain of Feeling." Six letters, Aug. 29, 1960 – March 9, 1961, were written from San Francisco where Zelinski has remained with Wight. The first letter is undated, but responds to Chabot's letter to her of Aug. 29, 1960 and concerns an inventory of Zelinski's possessions still at Los Luceros, which is to be sold in October 1960. Four letters and one postcard, March 15, 1961 – July 11, 1961, the first of which is written from Chicago where Zelinski has gone to visit her terminally ill brother, but otherwise are written from San Francisco, where she has taken a job. Beginning with the letter of May 1, 1961, a strain is shown in her relationship with Chabot, who has married Dana Bailey on Feb. 14, 1961. Six letters and one envelope without contents, Nov. 18, 1961 – Dec 31, 1961, are written from San Francisco. The letters posted Nov. 29 and Dec. 2, 1961 comment on the deterioration of Chabot's marriage. Eleven letters, Jan. 26, 1962 – Sept. 13, 1962, are written from San Francisco and three postcards, posted June 3 - 10, 1962, two of which are sent from Yosemite National Park and the third from San Francisco. Three letters, the first of which is written to Zelinski by Chabot and is dated Jan 15, 1963 with a handwritten notation by Zelinski at the bottom. It also has a copy of an earlier letter on the verso, dated July 1, 1962. All concern a gift to Zelinski of stock in Western Instrument Laboratories, a corporation established by Chabot. The other two letters are from Zelinski to Chabot, Feb. 2, 1963 and Feb. 18, 1963.
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