Charron, Marie, 1917-2007

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Merton employed Marie Charron for some of his typing after he had problems with his arm and back. He would mail her tapes or manuscripts to prepare for a standard fee.

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#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
1.	1967/03/17	HLS to Merton	It has been my pleasure. I shall be happy to type for you anytime. On pages 5 and 9 of original,		asking about two illegible words «detailed view»
2.	1967/03/25	TLS from Merton	Many thanks for the two jobs. The poems came in yesterday. Those poems! Dan got them going		typing of poems / discussion of payment for typing «detailed view»
3.	1967/04/02 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Here is more. Will you please do it all double space, and also begin each new item (as I myself		discussion of style points and payment for typing work / with Merton's back, he may have to dictate onto a tape for her «detailed view»
4.	1967/04/02 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Here is more. Will you please do it all double space, and also begin each new item (as I myself		discussion of style points and payment for typing work / with Merton's back, he may have to dictate onto a tape for her «detailed view»
5.	1967/04/12	TNS from Merton	Could you please take care of these? The usual thing, double spaced, four carbons.		asking what compensation should be given for typing «detailed view»
6.	1967/04/17	TLS from Merton	Thanks for your letter. I am returning the page that needed completing and sending a couple of odds		question of using tape recorded dictation «detailed view»
7.	1967/04/18	TANS from Merton	All of a sudden I have an urgent one. Could you please let me have this as soon as possible?		«detailed view»
8.	1967/05/03	TLS from Merton	Thanks for the package that came in this morning. Here is another one: it is not a matter		«detailed view»
9.	1967/05/06	TLS from Merton	Here is some more material: the usual, four carbons. None of it is at all urgent, except		statement on A Modern priest looks at his outdated Church by Fr. James Joseph Kavanaugh for typing / rainy Derby Day / sending privately printed booklet from Stanbrook Benedictine nuns «detailed view»
10.	1967/05/28	TLS from Merton	Here are a couple more. I am afraid the one on the Lepers has a lot of my writing on it.		picnic previous week with Tommie O'Callaghan «detailed view»
11.	1967/06/15	TLS from Merton	Here is another job: it is not as bad as it looks because what I have done is cut it practically		picnic at Gethsemani «detailed view»
12.	1967/07/04	TLS from Merton	Here is another piece of typing. The usual four carbons and all. I hope you are not on a trip		[Merton includes on the stationery some cut-out block letters spelling: "the monks. Modern Moving… with Old Fashioned Care"] «detailed view»
13.	1967/07/17?	TLS from Merton	Thanks for the last job: very good indeed. Do not worry about my asking you to retype.		[Merton includes on the stationery some cut-out block letters spelling: "the monks. Modern Moving… with Old Fashioned Care"] «detailed view»
14.	1967/07/29	TLS to Merton	Apologies, Father, for getting this off to you so late. For the past two weeks, the children have		«detailed view»
15.	1967/08/06	TLS from Merton	Thanks for the last batches of things: I am sorry the virus hit the home, and I did not interpret		sending My Argument with the Gestapo «detailed view»
16.	1967/08/15	TNS from Merton	Here is another batch of stuff. I hope you can handle it. There is someone waiting for the article		typing job for article on solitude «detailed view»
17.	1967/08/22	TLS from Merton	Thanks for the Solitude piece, perfect. I hope that you have received a package of stencils.		typing job for "Prologue : Why I have a wet footprint on top of my mind", later a section of The geography of Lograire, written for Suzanne Butorovich's student newspaper «detailed view»
18.	1967/08/24?	HNS from Merton	Thanks for the other things which came in today. No problem about Suzanne not being on the poem.		«detailed view»
19.	1967/09/05	HNS to Merton	My efforts to complete typing "Hot Summer..." this past weekend were almost in vain.		her German Shepherd named Liebe took "The Hot Summer of Sixty-Seven" manuscript and scattered it on the floor «detailed view»
20.	1967/09/08 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Here is the ms of that novel, slightly nuts and written years ago. I need it to be stenciled,		Merton Room at Bellarmine College / Ed Rice / wants to send a gift - hesitate to send a book since she sees plenty of his writings - The Merton Reader «detailed view»
21.	1967/09/08 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Here is the ms of that novel, slightly nuts and written years ago. I need it to be stenciled,		Merton Room at Bellarmine College / Ed Rice / wants to send a gift - hesitate to send a book since she sees plenty of his writings - The Merton Reader «detailed view»
22.	1967/09/19 (#01)	TLS from Merton	I am having more stencils sent as you may need them later anyway. But I don't quite know what you		in response to how Merton should be addressed - "Thomas Merton" because "a special religious name is on the way out anyhow" «detailed view»
23.	1967/09/19 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	I am having more stencils sent as you may need them later anyway. But I don't quite know what you		in response to how Merton should be addressed - "Thomas Merton" because "a special religious name is on the way out anyhow" «detailed view»
24.	1967/10/11	TL[c] to Merton	I thought it was about time to give you a progress report on the manuscript. Wish I could say		«detailed view»
25.	1967/10/14	TLS from Merton	Thanks for your letter. The other day when I was in town I was going to give you a ring but I was		typing My Argument with the Gestapo and poem, "Ben's Last Fight" «detailed view»
26.	1967/11/06 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Thanks for Ben, my own heavyweight champ. I am sorry that the novel has given so much trouble.		on typing of Merton's 25 year old novel ,My Argument with the Gestapo / sending new poems / note on "The New Liturgy" «detailed view»
27.	1967/11/06 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for Ben, my own heavyweight champ. I am sorry that the novel has given so much trouble.		on typing of Merton's 25 year old novel [possibly My Argument with the Gestapo] / sending new poems / note on "The New Liturgy" «detailed view»
28.	1967/11/13	TLS to Merton	Only about 75 pages to go on the manuscript. Any time is a busy time for me, but I'm so sincerely		[copy placed in the original source file - see "Fox, James" Series 29] «detailed view»
29.	1967/12/25?	HCS from Merton	Here's a quickie - could you please type as usual (4 carbons)-? I need it sometime next week.		[undated Christmas card] Christmas gift for Charron] «detailed view»
30.	1968/01/10	TALS from Merton	Hi! In case you're snowed in with nothing to do (?!) here are a few pages for typing.		«detailed view»
31.	1968/01/30?	TLS from Merton	Many thanks, Nat Turner arrived in good time and is now with the magazine. They are happy with it,		«detailed view»
32.	1968/02/25?	TLS from Merton	I'm glad to hear you're back and have the courage to face some more of my mss.		«detailed view»
33.	1968/03/11?	HNS from Merton	I wonder if you safely got a couple of things I sent for typing a couple of weeks ago -		typing of "Wild Places" (Review of Wilderness and the American Mind, by Roderick Nash) «detailed view»
34.	1968/03/12	HNS from Merton	The typescript arrived safely today - crossed with my note. Please disregard the note!		Monks Pond «detailed view»
35.	1968/03/18 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Sorry my note crossed with the returning mss. last time. I was a little worried because the mail		[Monks Pond letterhead] Merton praying for Charron's sons in Vietnam and military - "Government does not really have a right to draft people for wars like this which are not really for the defense of the country"; "should be fought by a professional army"; "Those who are involved in it have all my sympathy" «detailed view»
36.	1968/03/18 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Sorry my note crossed with the returning mss. last time. I was a little worried because the mail		Charron's sons - Merton praying for one in Vietnam and one entering the military - "the Government does not really have a right to draft people for wars like this which are not really for the defense of the country" - "should be fought by a professional army" - "Those who are involved in it have all my sympathy" «detailed view»
37.	1968/03/30?	HLS from Merton	Well - the copies turned up in this morning's mail! Five days from Louisville (Postmarked 25th)		«detailed view»
38.	1968/04/01	TLS from Merton	"The Stranger" arrived safely Saturday. Many thanks, you are ever a most great help.		[verso: notes by Charron] «detailed view»
39.	1968/04/07?	TLS from Merton	Here's another. This is very short so I don't scruple to send it you in what might be a busy week.		«detailed view»
40.	1968/04/18	TLS from Merton	Here is another job: this time I am a bit late for a deadline, though I can still make it.		«detailed view»
41.	1968/04/25?	HLS to Merton	The first page of the original is presently among the missing! I've guarded your material like a		«detailed view»
42.	1968/05/02	TNS from Merton	Here is another small job. It is neither complicated nor urgent, and there is nothing to worry		«detailed view»
43.	1968/06/07	TLS from Merton	Glad you found that page!! Thanks. All is well, editors pleased with that essay, and so on.		sending poetry for typing «detailed view»
44.	1968/06/18	TLS from Merton	Thanks for the other texts, poem etc, which reached me safely. Here is one more.		«detailed view»
45.	1968/07/15	TL from Merton	I have a Jesuit student here for the summer helping out with typing, hence I have not sent anything		«detailed view»
46.	1968/07/23?	HNS from Merton	Here are a couple of Bulletins that I would need in about ten days - no rush.		«detailed view»
47.	1968/08/06	HNS from Merton	Too hot to type? This is not v. long - and easy work (I think.) If I could have it		«detailed view»
48.	1968/09/05?	TNS from Merton	The "rush" job is being done here, thus saving two days in the mail. The enclosed is not wild rush		[postmarked 1968/September/07 (Saturday), dated Thursday] Merton discusses being sick and taking care of himself at hermitage «detailed view»
49.	1968/09/06 (#02)	HCS from Merton	Oops! I'm so sorry I forgot to let you know the ms. arrived safely. I had to make a hurried trip		recent trip to Washington, D.C. and future trip to India, Thailand, Indonesia and Japan / not sending manuscripts from Asia / thanks for typing work - Masses to be said for her and her family «detailed view»
50.	1968/09/06? (#01)	TNS from Merton	Hastily adding some new ideas to the piece I sent yesterday. I think it will not be hard to fit		[seemingly a follow-up, dated Friday, to note of Thursday postmarked 1968/September/07 (Saturday)] «detailed view»
51.	2007/04/22	other[x]	CHARRON, Helen Marie (Barringer), peacefully passed away, Tuesday, April 17, 2007 in Reston, VA.		[obituary from The Louisville Courier-Journal] «detailed view»
52.	undated/no/no	TNS from Merton	Here is the other short piece I referred to. I would very much like to be able to send this out		«detailed view»

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