• Title: Letter from John G. Neihardt to Lucile Aly, May 19, 1962
  • Date: May 19, 1962
  • Author(s): Neihardt, John Gneisenau, 1881-1973
  • Recipient: Aly, Lucile Folse, 1913-
  • TEI XML: nei.j4c.36.18-21.xml
5-19-62
Dear Lucile:

This is for the record. Also, I feel you'll want to know about the Library Dinner last evening (May 18). It was a glorious affair. When the bust was presented (with a lovely speech) and the citation of merit read, the response was explosive — a "standing ovation" and a feeling of affection that filled the place. It was one of the best things that a crowd ever did to me. The Nebraska affair was, of course, grander, more impressive; but this was intimate, loving, precious. I wish you had been there.

On the 26th I'll do the honors at the Willa Cather banquet and dedicate the memorial to her.

I am making strong medicine for Bower!!

Love always —

John.
Program
Third Annual Meeting and Dinner
May 18, 1962
Friends of the Library
  • 1:30 P.M. Executive Committee Meeting

  • 2 P.M. Council Meeting

  • 4 P.M. Reception
    Home of President and Mrs. Ellis

  • 6:30 Third Annual Dinner
Dinner Program
  • 6:30 109 Main Library

  • Presiding Mrs. George Rozier
    President, Friends of the Library

  • Invocation Reverend Monk Bryan
    Pastor, Missouri Methodist Church

  • Welcome Dr. Elmer Ellis
    President, University of Missouri

  • Report of the Council Meeting

  • Presentation of the Neihardt Bust

  • Citations of Merit

  • Address: The Next Milestone
    Presentation of the Millionth Book

The MILLIONTH Book

U OF M

UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL [?] POPULI SUPREMIA LEX[?]

MCCCXL

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI LIBRARY
The Millionth Book
A History of the University of Missouri
by Frank F. Stephens
Friends of the Library
3rd Annual Dinner
May 18, 1962
Neihardt Rt. 7 Columbia, Mo
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COLUMBIA, MO. MAY 19 4-PM 1962

US AIR MAIL 7¢

Dr. Lucile Aly, 1138 22nd Ave., East, Eugene Oregon.