Sorokin, Pitirim A. - Manuscripts and Papers - University Library ...

Box 21
PETRELEVICIUS, Rev. E. [September, 1950-March, 1951 . 8 i tems] Correspondence
re: Petrelevicius' request to meet with Sorokin; an attempt
to re-establ ish the International Sociological Institute; Sorokin' s
article "Thirty years after" appears in the 1950 edition of his
Leaves from a ~Gsian diary; and Soroki n's thank you note for a copy
of Petrelevicius' paper on Sorokin.
p-19 PICKETT, Dr. Clarence E. [November, 1957-January, 1961. 27 i terns]
Correspondence re: an invitation for Sorokin to attend a meeting of
the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; Sorokin's sugges-
tion on the prevention of a Third World War; The daily worker's
call for cessation of nuclear tests and the merging of American
scientific experiments with those of the Soviet Union; a copy of
William Z. Foster's "The politics of the atom bomb", Daily worker
August 13, 1945; two copies of a statement "We are facing a danger
unlike any danger that has ever existed ..." ; a request to include
Sorokin's name on a second statement by the National Committee for
a Sane Nuclear Policy; a copy of a newspaper advertisement "The
world's peoples have a right to demand no contamination without
representation questions and answers for Americans about hydrogen
bombs"; a copy of a statement "Mr. Eisenhower . . . Mr. Krushchev . . .
Mr. Macmillan the time is now!"; a request for Sorokin to sign a
statement which requests passage of Senate Resolution 96; Sorokin's
will ingness to support Hubert Humphrey's resolution; a request to
include Sorokin's name among the sponsors of the NCSNP; a copy of
the Seventh Statement for Americans "An open letter to President
Eisenhower and Premier Krushchev" ; Sorokin ' s Power and moral i ty
expresses universal and complete disarmament; an invitation for
Sorokin to attend the Second Annual Conference of the NCSNP; Soro-
kin's decline to attend the conference; a copy of the report of the
Second Annual National Conference; Sorokin's complaint that his Power
and morality and American sex revolution have not been reviewed by
the Saturday review of literature; Current history has assigned
three experts in sociology and philosophy to review Sorokin's works;
an invitation for Sorokin to participate in the Sane National Con-
ference of Chicago; Sorokin's decline to the invitation; a request
for Sorokin to purchase 10 copies of Norman Cousins' In place of
folly in order to be distributed to friends; "Excerpts from Snow's
speech to American scientists", New York times December, 1960; and
a copy of Dr. H.A. Jack's sermon "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. K. - a plea
for a sane nuclear policy in 1961".
P-20 PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY CENTER. [June, 1963-Apri 1 , 1964. 11 i tems]
Correspondence re: an invitation for Sorokin to participate in the
Center's "Visiting Scholars Program" ; Sorokin's acceptance of the
invitation; arrangements for Soroki n's 1 ecture series; Soroki n's
cancel lation of lecture engagements because of i 11 ness; a repeated
invitation for Sorokin to participate in a lecture series; and
Sorokin's decline to any further invitations.