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- catalog abstract "Scion of the Pittsburgh oil and banking family, William Larimer Mellon, Jr., was married, the father of three, and a successful rancher in Arizona when, at thirty-seven, he read a Life magazine article about Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life" that guided his mission hospital in a remote area of Gabon, Africa. Mellon immediately wrote to the famous humanitarian in Lambarene, expressing admiration of Schweitzer's life of service and the wish to engage in similar work with his wife, Gwendolyn. Schweitzer's reply in March 1948 was a lengthy letter of realistic encouragement. In time, Mellon received his medical degree from Tulane University and later established a well-equipped hospital in one of the poorest regions of Haiti, where, with his wife, he spent the rest of his life working as a physician and a community development engineer. The hospital continues to thrive. Brothers in Spirit brings together sixty-five of the letters written between 1947 and Schweitzer's death in 1965. Presented here in both English and the original French, they eloquently tell the story of a comfortable life abandoned for the goal of serving humanity.".
- catalog contributor b9346347.
- catalog contributor b9346348.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Scion of the Pittsburgh oil and banking family, William Larimer Mellon, Jr., was married, the father of three, and a successful rancher in Arizona when, at thirty-seven, he read a Life magazine article about Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life" that guided his mission hospital in a remote area of Gabon, Africa. Mellon immediately wrote to the famous humanitarian in Lambarene, expressing admiration of Schweitzer's life of service and the wish to engage in similar work with his wife, Gwendolyn. Schweitzer's reply in March 1948 was a lengthy letter of realistic encouragement. In time, Mellon received his medical degree from Tulane University and later established a well-equipped hospital in one of the poorest regions of Haiti, where, with his wife, he spent the rest of his life working as a physician and a community development engineer. The hospital continues to thrive. Brothers in Spirit brings together sixty-five of the letters written between 1947 and Schweitzer's death in 1965. Presented here in both English and the original French, they eloquently tell the story of a comfortable life abandoned for the goal of serving humanity.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 188 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Brothers in spirit.".
- catalog identifier "0815603444 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Brothers in spirit.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "English and French.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engfre".
- catalog publisher "Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press,".
- catalog relation "Brothers in spirit.".
- catalog spatial "Gabon Lambaréné (Moyen-Ogooué)".
- catalog spatial "Haiti".
- catalog subject "1996 I-912".
- catalog subject "610/.92 B 20".
- catalog subject "Mellon, William Larimer, 1910- Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Mellon, William Larimer, 1910-".
- catalog subject "Missionaries Collected Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Missionaries, Medical Gabon Lambaréné (Moyen-Ogooué) Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Missionaries, Medical Haiti Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Missions and Missionaries Collected Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "R722.32.S35 A4 1996".
- catalog subject "Religious Missions Collected Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965.".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 S413bd 1996a".
- catalog title "Brothers in spirit : the correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr. / translated by Jeannette Q. Byers ; foreword by Gwen Grant Mellon and Rhena Schweitzer Miller.".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".