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Merton, Owen, 1887-1931

Series 5, Owen Merton's letters to his sister, Gwynedd Fanny Merton Trier (1885-1986)

Descriptive Summary

Record Group:	Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials:	1909-1926
Volume:	73 item(s); 292 pg(s)

The bulk of this file contains letters from Owen Merton to his parents and siblings, but other miscellaneous letters are to and from Evelyn Scott and others. Some letters concern his son, Thomas Merton, and his wife, Ruth Jenkins Merton.

Biography

Owen Merton was Thomas Merton's father. He was born in New Zealand, studied art in Paris, and traveled in Europe, Bermuda, the United States, and northern Africa to make a living as a landscape painter.

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Series List

Series Number	Series Name	Total Records
1	Owen Merton's letters to his father, Alfred James Merton (1857-1931)	6
2	Owen Merton's letters to his sister, Beatrice Katharine (Ka) Merton (1891-1972)	4
3	Owen Merton's letters to his mother, Gertrude Hannah (Grierson) Merton (1855-1956)	43
4	Owen Merton's letters to Evelyn Scott (1893-1963)	9
5	Owen Merton's letters to his sister, Gwynedd Fanny Merton Trier (1885-1986)	7
6	Other miscellaneous correspondence to and from Owen Merton	4

Container List

Series#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
Series 5 #1. «All Series«	1909/06/03	HLS[x] to Merton, Gwynedd	Many thanks for all your letters which I got when I got here on Saturday.		[writing from London] «detailed view»
Series 5 #2. «All Series«	1910/09/28	HLS[x] to Merton, Gwynedd	I fancy we are about quit in the matter of lettter we write to one another. So I am not going		[writing from Paris] «detailed view»
Series 5 #3. «All Series«	1911/03/14	HLS[x] to Merton, Gwynedd	Thank you so very much for your last letter, when you were again in Christchurch. How grand it is to		[writing from Paris] «detailed view»
Series 5 #4. «All Series«	1911/10/17	HLS[x] to Merton, Gwynedd	Here are so many mail gone, and no word yet to you. The worst of it is, that at Oñate, I did write		[written from Pasajes (Pasaia), Spain] «detailed view»
Series 5 #5. «All Series«	1913/05/21	HLS[x] to Merton, Gwynedd	Mother's letter has just come today, a week later than it should have arrived, saying she had got		[written from Amalfi, Italy] «detailed view»
Series 5 #6. «All Series«	undated/no/no (#01)	HLS[x] to Merton, Gwynedd	Got a short note from you this morning - saying		«detailed view»
Series 5 #7. «All Series«	undated/no/no (#02)	HLS[x] to Merton, Gwynedd	I have not a moment to write you a line. This is mother's which I am returning. Yours ever		«detailed view»

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