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{"value"=>"1968-1987", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1968/1987"}
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1968
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1987
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{"value"=>"I. Correspondence, (bulk"}
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{"value"=>".2 l.f. (1 box)", "format"=>"simple"}
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{"value"=>"Correspondence is arranged chronologically, with separate folders for major correspondents arranged alphabetically, and is almost exclusively incoming. <p>Pickett evidently retained little of his correspondence. Surviving letters consist largely of letters written to Pickett by members of his immediate family while he was hospitalized during 1986-87. The only other sustained correspondence consists of letters (1977-1980) exchanged between Pickett and Randy Smallwood, an aspiring gay poet living in rural Kentucky who sought advice and encouragement from Pickett. Correspondence for the years 1977-80, while by no means complete, is much more extensive than for other years; it largely concerns Pickett's political activism, journalism, and attempts to publish poems. Most of the extant outgoing correspondence consists of photocopies of letters Pickett sent to various government officials concerning various gay rights and New York City issues. Also included are correspondence and a typescript astrological \"Life Path\" reading prepared for Pickett in 1974 by the \"Italian mail-order astrologer\" Oric Bovar, along with clippings detailing Bovar's later notoriety in New York (1975-77) as a cult leader and celebrity guru, and his eventual suicide.</p> <p> Other important groups of correspondence have been placed elsewhere in the Papers. Letters concerning Pickett's biweekly gay newspaper, <span class=\"title\">New York City News</span>, are in Box 1, folders 18-24 and Box 2, folders 1-3. The subject files (Boxes 4-7) contain some miscellaneous correspondence (largely 1977-80) sent to Pickett by various gay activists and organizations.</p>"}
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1968
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1987
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1968