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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hoyt, Robert G.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967-1968

Volume: 12 item(s); 13 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Hoyt asks Merton to write a book review on Mircea Eliade's From Primitives to Zen and Rosemary Haughton's Transformation of Man. They also discuss Martin Marty's open letter to Merton concerning Seeds of Destruction and Merton's response. The two men also have a humorous discussion about "the horrors of baldness" after Hoyt sees photos of Merton taken by John Lyons.

Biography

Bob Hoyt writes as Editor of the National Catholic Reporter from Kansas City, Missouri.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/07/03 TLSto MertonThis is to ask whether you would undertake a review (or, better, a notice) of Mircea Eliade' FROM   
 1967/07/26 TL[c]from MertonI am afraid this review of Eliade is more "full scale" than you wanted, but I kept it as close to   
 1967/07/28 TLSto MertonAs an average reader I doubt that I'd find the book interesting, but your review certainly is.   
 1967/08/21 TLSto MertonMartin Marty's column for our next issue takes the form of an open letter addressed to you,   
 1967/08/24 TL[c]from MertonYour special delivery of Aug. 21 reached me yesterday and I was happy to read Martin Marty's open   
 1967/08/29 TLSto MertonMany thanks for the reply to MM. It arrived in time to be used in the same issue, but the people   
 1967/09/20 TALSto MertonHugh Garvey of Templegate has suggested you as a reviewer of Rosemary Haughton's   
 1967/12/28 TALSto MertonThanks for your letter. We plan to run it in our issue of January 10 along with a couple of other   
 1968/01/02 TLSto MertonWhat we got was, as I said, a hint. Brother John Lyons sent us some photographs of you and said   
 1968/01/20 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for the issue with all our letters. That was a lively page, and the one opposite it also.   
 1968/03/20 TLS[x]from Passelecq, PaulFirst of all I want to introduce myself: Father Paul G. Passelecq, benedictine monk of Maredsous,  [Fr. Paul Passelecq was a Benedictine monk of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium]
 1968/03/29 TLS[c]to Passelecq, PaulWe are happy to grant you permission to translate and reproduce Father Merton's letter.   
        

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