The collection contains correspondence, programs and brochures, speeches, newspaper and magazine clippings, educational and training materials, and awards and certificates pertaining to the Levys’ work with local and national AIDS organizations. It dates from 1987 to 2002 and is arranged alphabetically by topic.

The correspondence is divided between general correspondence related to the Levy’s work with AIDS awareness (B1/f.5-6) and Pat’s correspondence with a friend, George Stan (B2/f.5-6). The general correspondence includes letters thanking the Levy’s for donations, time volunteered, and speeches given at such places as Ladue Horton Watkins High School, a seminar at Washington University, and the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. There is one letter from the College of Charleston recognizing the distinguished service of Dr. Michael Pincus, Pat’s brother (17 April 1996).

The remainder of the correspondence dates from 1990 to 1993, and is comprised primarily of letters written to Pat by George Stan (1947-1992), who lived in St. Louis between 1984 and 1989. While Stan lived in St. Louis, he wrote folklore and comedy. He worked on a syndicated radio series entitle Johnny Cash’s American Folklore and also developed a comedic radio series called The Happy Campers Radio Show. Previously, he worked promoting professional and amateur sports such as the Boston Marathon. Stan returned to his family in London, Ontario, when he developed AIDS. George kept Pat up to date on his health, friends and family, and his activities with local AIDS groups during the last two years of his life in Ontario. Pat visited George Stan in May 1991 (photos B1/f.18). Dorothy Stan wrote to Pat after George’s death, sending photographs and telling of her progress creating a quilt block in her son’s memory.

The newspaper and few magazine clippings date from 1987 to 1996 and pertain to local and national topics related to AIDS and local volunteers such as Patrick Leonard (1969-1989) and Michael Edlin (1940-1990). There are several articles about Pat and Mayer Levy’s activisim that have been separated from other clippings. There is also one folder of obituaries and funeral programs, including those for Pat’s brother Michael Pincus.

The Levys traveled to The NAMES Project’s AIDS memorial quilt displays in Washington D.C. from 1987 to 1992. They saved programs and some volunteer letters and information materials. In 1989, the quilt came to St. Louis on its national tour. There is a group of snapshots and a postcard from the 1992 Washington D.C. quilt display (B1/f.18).

The speeches date from 1987 to 2002, and reveal the details of the Levy family story and it loss to AIDS, often sharing intimate details of the family’s grief. There are no dates on several speeches but approximate dates were assigned according to their content. The group to whom the speech was given is not often identified and there is sometimes more than one copy of a single speech.