File 4 - 'Chapter eight - Geneva years'

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Contains cuttings and personal correspondence relating to chapter eight of Pick's memoir which largely covers her work as The Guardian's Europe correspondent, based in Geneva,1966-1972, but which also included a temporary return to the US to cover a survey of the UN General Assembly and Nixon-Humphrey Presidential election campaign, September to November 1968.

Includes 20 letters sent by Pick to her mother while she travelled around the US covering the Nixon-Humphrey Presidential election campaign, September - November 1968. The letters cover her assignments, thoughts on Nixon, social events attended and her mother's concerns for her working in America. There are also two undated postcards sent by Pick to her mother from Rome and an undated letter sent from [Daban] in Africa mainly discussing travel arrangements and the weather.

Also includes loose photocopies and printed cuttings, some annotated, of her own work and other Guardian writers covering the years 1966 to 1979 on topics including refugees, the Pope, Paris fashion houses, women's rights, American politics, the UN, Romania, Yugoslavia, Vietnam War peace negotiations, and French strikes and riots.