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Collection of professional and personal letters sent to Hella Pick including some of her own [draft] letters and a file of correspondence with Guardian editors.

File of correspondence maintained by Hella Pick containing letters from Guardian editors' Alastair Hetherington, Peter Preston and Alan Rusbridger. The file spans her career at the newspaper and includes employment contracts, discussions of salary, appointments, assignments - including her coverage of the Birmingham Alabama campaign in 1963, potential articles and travel arrangements. Other correspondents include Guardian staff Ian Wright, Joe Minogue, Mary Stott, Geoffrey [Taylor] and Harold Jackson.

Also includes biographical notes and quotes from correspondence relating to Geoffrey Taylor's book 'Changing Faces - a history of the Guardian, 1956-88', nd [c early 1990s] and a letter to 'Barry' in which she details her travels across Europe and desire to return to the US, 31 May [1976].

Personal correspondence and cards sent to Pick from friends and acquaintances. Includes two sympathy cards on the death of Baron Weidenfeld from 2016, a small set of greetings and holidays cards, and a thank you note from Jeremy Thorpe MP, 4 September 1978. The collection also includes a bundle of largely undated postcards written to or by Pick.

Contains two letters from Pick to Jean-Claude Aime discussing talking points around the UN including suggestions for improving the UN's image in the UK.

Contains Pick's research files for her memoir 'Invisible Walls' (2021), research files arranged by subject and a file of contacts.

A collection of letters, newspaper cuttings and other personal items from the period 1946 to 1991 ordered into files by Pick relating to chapters in her 2021 memoir 'Invisible Walls'. File titles are Pick's own.

Contains letters and newspaper cuttings relating to her early life in England, education and beginning of her career as a journalist.

Includes letters and telegrams dated between 1946 and 1961 with friends including the sculptor Ophelia Gordon Bell which discuss Pick's career, time at LSE, life at The Croft in Grasmere and the Moral Rearmament movement. There is also one letter from Ophelia to Pick's mother Johanna. There are a number of letters from Pick's friends or acquaintances identified only by their first names. These include letters from Joan (1946), Bridget (1946), Giselle (undated), and Margot (undated) which largely reference daily life such as holidays, gifts, visits to The Croft and household items.

The file also includes six newspaper cuttings (some Guardian) of her own writings. Subjects include her experience of being an Austrian child refugee in the UK and the work of artist William Heaton Cooper.

Contains items relating to Pick's early assignment as UN correspondent for The Guardian.

Records include: Pick's press pass and one sheet itinerary for the 'Belgrade Conference' [Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement] in 1961; letters sent from Pick to her mother during her first few months stay in New York as UN correspondent, subjects include day to day life in New York, living arrangements, reporting from the UN, dinners and social events attended, and brief mentions of stories covered including 'The Congo Crisis' and nuclear debates, 1961; a letter to Pick's mother from close friend Grete Marmorek, undated; a list of attendees on President JF Kennedy's press trip to Hyannisport, Massachusetts, 10-11 May 1963; and a note dictated by Alastair Hetherington concerning a Polaris story by Pick, February 1963.

The file also includes newspaper cuttings of some of her own articles from 1961 to 1963 covering the topics of US social politics, the Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear arms, Lissa-Maria PiIla, U Thant at the UN and the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama.

Cuttings, correspondence and notes relating to chapter seven of Pick's memoir covering her experiences as a journalist at The Guardian and book projects between 1963 and 1965.

Includes letters from publishers George Weidenfeld, Penguin, Anthony Blond Limited and Stephen Watts from May 1963 to June 1965 concerning proposals for Pick to write books on the UN and West Africa. Also includes Synopsis for a book on West Africa, undated [early-mid 1960s].

There is also correspondence between Pick and Guardian staff including editor Alastair Hetherington between December 1962 and January 1966 concerning assignments, continuing in the US, a request to return briefly to London and Pick's potential book project. Other correspondents include Mary Stott from December 1963 and March 1965 concerning writing for The Guardian's Women's Page and Geoffrey Taylor,(May 1964) regarding Pick's mother's complaints to the Guardian and general office updates.

The file also includes Pick's press passes for the 'Goldwater-Miller 1964 campaign' and Royal Visit Committee, October 1964, her 1959 CV and a collection of newspaper cuttings of her own work between 1963 and 1965. Article topics include the Selma march, Royal visit to Quebec, the funeral of John F Kennedy, the Cold War, US politics (Barry Goldwater), The Beatles in the US, and the UN.