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[mentions sending poem - poem not included with letter] plans of transfer to Berkeley
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spring vacation hitchhiking to San Francisco / presidential election - Kennedy and McCarthy
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Merton's "Edifying Cables" and Bob Dylan / sending two Vassar student publications Bredenberg edited - Review and Coccatrice / submissions to Monks Pond
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Denise Levertov leaving Vassar - connection with the Peace Movement
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Spanish and Latin American poets / Zukofsky favorite of North American poets / importance of Merton's writing, but out of mainstream writing world - "not a regular 'Catholic poet'"
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asking for help on writing a paper on Merton's poetry
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An unknown sender writes to Merton, "I'm glad you exist".
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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.
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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.