MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1932
Volume: 4 item(s); 10 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This file contains photocopies and transcripts of two letters from Merton to Reg Marsh a year before Merton went to university at Cambridge.
Biography
Reginald Marsh was a artist and friend of Owen Merton, Thomas' father and another artist. Unlike Owen, who tended toward watercolor landscapes, Marsh is often considered of the Social Realist school, reporting in detail urban life in the 1930's through his paintings and drawings. Merton writes to Marsh in April of 1932 while on Easter holiday from Oakham in Germany and writes again from Oakham. He would spend most of the summer of 1933 at Marsh's studio in Greenwich Village in New York. (Source: The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton by Michael Mott, pp. 61 and 73.)
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See also Volume 29, No. 3 of The Merton Seasonal for published versions of both letters in this file.
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