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Hayden Carruth is owner and operator of Crow's Mark Press in Johnson, Vermont, and has won numerous awards for poetry.
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See also Day of a Stranger by Thomas Merton, edited by Robert E. Daggy; or "Day of a Stranger" in A Thomas Merton Reader; and contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 97 and 196.
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1967/10/11 |
TLS to Merton |
Interesting, incisive, and eloquent, as usual (in the summer Hudson); but you are terribly unfair to |
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response to "Day of a Stranger" [published in Hudson Review, no. 20 (1967)] - Merton writes, "As to crows, they form part of a different pattern. They are vociferous and self-justifying, like humans. They are not two, they are many. They fight each other and the other birds, in a constant state of war." / SAC plane
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1967/10/20 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
I have given your letter deep thought and now I think I have got to the root of the trouble. |
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on "Ecclesiastical types" mentioned by Carruth / on crow fighting / Merton agrees that "I would rather see this country governed by them [crows] than by the Texas buzzards that are now in control."
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1967/10/20 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I have given your letter deep thought and now I think I have got to the root of the trouble. |
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on "Ecclesiastical types" mentioned by Carruth / on crow fighting / Merton agrees that "I would rather see this country governed by them [crows] than by the Texas buzzards that are now in control."
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1967/10/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Actually I myself prefer ravens: more interesting birds. We haven't many here, and mostly farther |
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conducts "nicest meditations in the henhouse" / comparison's between Merton's hermit life and Carruth's life on his farm in Vermont
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1968/02/01 |
HLS to Merton |
I would be tickled pink to be in your magazine. Right now we are having the Asian (Zen?) flu, |
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1968/02/07 |
HLS to Merton |
Are any of these of use to you, or all if they strike you as good enough? R'd welcome suggestions |
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1968/02/29 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for the fine poems. I want to keep all three, two for summer and one for fall. |
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[carbon copy is typed over another letter to Carlos Reyes from February 28 making this letter difficult to read]
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1968/03/11 |
TLS to Merton |
Note from J Laughlin says you are working on Camus, and would like to look at my book about him: |
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1968/03/19 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your book on Camus. It has just come in and I have only looked at it, but you seem |
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Merton sending pamphlet on Camus' The Plague and Monks Pond
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1968/03/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks for your two Camus pamphlets, and the copy of Monks Pond, Vol. 1, No. 1. I haven't had time |
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Carruth's biography for Monks Pond - his books Nothing for Tigers and Contra Mortem - working on a book about an auto tour of the U.S. / life in the northern Green Mountains and self-sufficient farming
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1973/12/05 |
TLS to Center from Carruth, Hayden |
Thanks for your letter of the 30th November. My association with Tom Merton was very casual. |
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permissions to use materials for publication and research
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