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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963-1968

Volume: 13 item(s); 14 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Lytle, Andrew Nelson".

Biography

Andrew Nelson Lytle was an author of essays, novels and short stories, a professor of history and creative writing, and an editor. Lytle writes to Merton as editor of The Sewanee Review, a quarterly published by the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Merton became a regular contributor to this publication. In addition, Lytle often sent books of interest to Merton.

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This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1963/03/02 TLSto MertonThank you for your letter and the further enclosure of verse. Let me read the two of them together.   
 1963/11/25 TLSto MertonI liked you Conjectures and would like to print them. It is a little long for us, and my first   
 1965/09/07 HLSto MertonWe stay over-pressed. I would like to print your poem. Thanks for letting me see it.   
 1966/03/26 TLSto MertonThank you for your magazine. I will at the first moment look forward to reading it. I'm sending   
 1966/05/02 TLSto MertonIf you would like to do this review of Roland Barthes' book we will try to get it to you, in case   
 1966/06/21 TLSto MertonWill you please forgive me, but I have not used the Origen poem yet. If it is coming out this   
 1966/07/07 TL[c]from MertonThanks very much for your letter of June 21. It is too bad about "Origen", but the ND annual   
 1966/07/20 TLSto MertonThank you for your gracious reply to my letter. I am awfully sorry about this. I am afraid I am   
 1966/07/29 TALSto MertonWe have sent you five books on Camus and two books by Edwin Muir. You might do an article review   
 1966/08/12 (#01)TLSto MertonI am turning your letter over to Bill Ralston. Try to keep the Muir books down to two thousand   
 1966/08/12 (#02)TL[c]to Harvard University PressWe would be grateful if you would send a copy of "Essays on Literature and Society" by Edwin Muir to   
 1966/08/12 (#03)HNS from Ralston, William / to Mertonwe have written Harvard Univ. Press, and asked them to send the Muir book directly to you for review   
 1966/09/19 HLSto MertonHere is the proof for your poem, which we want to use in the October issue - I'm sorry we didn't   
        

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