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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hamilton, Alfred Starr, 1913-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967-1968

Volume: 6 item(s); 6 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Alfred Starr Hamilton was a poet and contributor to Monks Pond. In his biographical statement from Monks Pond, he states that he had lived through the depression and spent a year in the army; since then, he became a socialist and lived on very little money as a poet.

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Related Information and Links

See also contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 42, 73, 132 and 340.

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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
 1967/12/21 TALSto MertonJonathan Williams wrote me. Asked me to send you a contribution to your anthology.   
 1968/01/08 TL[c]from MertonI am very happy to have your poems: want to use six right in the first issue which ought to be out   
 1968/01/15 TALSto MertonYes, I like the Salvation Army title for the first six poems. I am more familiar with the Salvation   
 1968/03/20 TLSto MertonSend me a couple more copies of Monks Pond, as soon as can do. Lent the last two copies out   
 1968/07/01 TL[c]from MertonSorry, sorry, sorry and again sorry. I feel very bad about not having written before and given you   
 1968/07/05 TLSto MertonIf this is to re-publish "Blackwidow" in the next issue - but do save the space for one of those   
        

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