Item 489 - Correspondence relating to attempts by Laurie Shields to organise an Abbey tour of the the United States with benefit performances for the Rodrigo Terronez Memorial Clinic planned for Delano, California.

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Correspondence relating to attempts by Laurie Shields to organise an Abbey tour of the United States with benefit performances for the Rodrigo Terronez Memorial Clinic planned for Delano, California. Includes letter dated 17 February 1971 from Laurie Shields addressed to Cesar Chavez, UFWOC - P.O. Box 130, Delano, California. Shields writes that 'if the Abbey Directors - five men whose word is final - could be persuaded to send a company to tour...why couldn't the opening night be a benefit performance for the clinic?' . Also includes letter dated 28 November 1971 from Laurie Shields addressed to Ernest Blythe, 50 Kenilworth Square, Dublin 6, Ireland suggesting a new Abbey tour of the United states to him, also mentioning the idea 'seemed to appeal' to Roger L. Stevens chairman of the Board of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C. Also photocopies of some of the letters. Also photocopy of an article from the 'The New Yorker' -U.S. Journal: Imperial County, California. Gives the opinions of four local doctors about the establishment of Clinica de Salubridad de Campesinos last June in Brawley, Calif, with HEW funds.

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27/06/2013
30/07/2025