Correspondence: Letters to and from Thomas Merton

Item set

Title

Creator

Thomas Merton See all item sets with this value

Date

1931-1968, with some ancillary letters to or from Merton family members from 1909 and letters to or from the Merton Center dating the period after Merton's death See all item sets with this value

Identifier

Thomas Merton Collection, Section A: Correspondence.

Volume

40 cubic feet; 16 file drawers

Subject

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968--Correspondence. See all item sets with this value

Format

Paper records in file folders

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1967-11-28 - Letter to Merton from Nancy Fly Bredenberg.

asking for help on writing a paper on Merton's poetry
1968-02-22: Letter from Thomas Merton to Nancy Fly Bredenberg
1967-01-23 - letter from an unidentified sender to Thomas Merton, postmarked Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 23 January 1967

An unknown sender writes to Merton, "I'm glad you exist".
1962-07-09: Postcard to Merton from "Zahn, Gordon Charles, 1918-2007." Photograph of Sankt Radegund cemetery in Austria with grave of Franz Jägerstätter circled in pen by Gordon Zahn sent to Thomas Merton, 1962 July 9.

Thomas Merton asked Gordon Zahn if he had a photograph of the grave of Franz Jägerstätter. Zahn sent Merton a photograph with the grave marked in pen. Blessed Franz Jägerstätter was an Austrian, Catholic lay person, and conscientious objector during the Second World War. The Nazi regime denied him an alternative to armed combat. He was imprisoned and executed in 1943.
Letter to Thomas Merton from James H. Forest. No date but likely between 1962/08/16 and 1962/09/22 letters

Correspondence with James H. Forest who was involved in the Catholic Worker movement and started the Catholic Peace Fellowship. This is a two-page letter from Forest to Merton discussing a recent visit with Tom Cornell. The CNVA abbreviation is the Committee for Nonviolent Action.
1964-10-12: Letter from Thomas Merton to Chris McNair

Thomas Merton writes his condolences and sends his poem "Picture of a Black Child with a White Doll" to the father of Carol Denise McNair, one of the girls killed in the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Merton references, in the letter and his poem, the photographs by Chris McNair of his daughter published in LOOK magazine, March 24, 1964, pages 23-25.
1965-10-06: Letter from Lewis Mumford to Thomas Merton
1962-02-02: Letter from Lewis Mumford to Thomas Merton
1962-02-17: Letter from Thomas Merton to Lewis Mumford

This item is only viewable at the Thomas Merton Center.
1967-07-12: Letter from Thomas Merton to Lewis Mumford