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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Boyd, Alda Lee

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 3 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Alda Lee Boyd was Publicity Director for the Seabury Press in 1967.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

Regarding the news clipping on Merton's hobbies reprinted from Publisher's Weekly in the New York Post (Publisher's Weekly, Nov. 11, 1967), see also the "Allman, Susan" and the "Belford, Lee Archer" files.

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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/10/09 TLSto MertonThanks for your permission to send the releases about your fields of interest to Publishers' Weekly  poems of David Jones / sending comments of poet Chad Walsh to Merton with his comments on the Religious Dimensions in Literature Series - asks Merton for suggested Latin American and Welsh poets for this college course series
 1967/11/06 otherto Merton[…] A HERMIT'S PREFERENCES Seabury Press recently sent Thomas Merton an author questionnaireYes relates Merton's interests given in an author's questionnaire - "Zen. Indians. Wood. Birds. Beer. Anglican friends. Calligraphic abstract art. Ad Reinhardt. Subversive tape recordings for nuns. Tea. Bob Dylan. Nicaraguan folk art. Quakerism. Shakerism. Novels of Walker Percy. Myth in William Faulkner.", etc.
 1967/11/09 TLSto MertonI thought you would like to see the attached tear sheet from Publisher's Weekly. They did, indeed,  [attaches 1967/11/06 article from <u>Publisher's Weekly</u>]
        

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