MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Savory, Teo, d. 1989
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967-1968
Volume: 14 item(s); 26 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Savory, Teo".
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Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1967/05/09 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | In your splendid book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, I note your mention of a poem by Raissa | |
| Raissa Maritain on Chagall - Merton's plans to translate - asks permission to publish / background of Unicorn Press and <u>Unicorn Journal</u> / Merton's photographs of Shaker village of Pleasant Hill / Savory's Massachusetts house in a Shaker area |
| | 1967/05/09? (#02) | other | to Merton | Unicorn Press [-] Unicorn Book Shop [-] Catalogue [-] Winter / Spring 1967 | |
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| | 1967/05/17 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am happy to get your letter and to learn about the Unicorn Press, and the Journal. The Folio has | |
| Raissa Maritain's "Chagall" already published in <i>Emblems of a Season of Fury</i> - would like to submit translations of Haitian poets / proposes [sends?] a non-traditional Christmas carol for <u>Unicorn Journal</u> / Shaker photos |
| | 1967/05/29 | HLS | to Merton | Many with much less to do than yourself do not answer our letters, or do not send us poems. | |
| Merton's "Carol" will appear in <u>Unicorn Journal</u> with another poem and poems by Langston Hughes and Tim Reynolds / asks if Merton would do an article about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker / Haitian poets / Merton's drawings / Peace March in Santa Barbara - conservative town, but both wealthy and poor signing petition |
| | 1967/06/30 | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry I have taken such a time to answer your last letters: about a month, a little more. Though I | |
| hermit's life / Merton thinks that his experience with Friendship House in Harlem and the Catholic Worker was too long ago to write a good article / possibility of a Camus or Kafka article |
| | 1967/08/08 | HLS | to Merton | A stream, trees overhanging, a steep incline for a hundred feet, there another hundred feet of lawn, | |
| Poetry Readings for Peace / Alan Brilliant teaching a student to hand bind books / W. H. Ferry (Ping Ferry) / Savory read "Original Child Bomb" for Unicorn Book Store poetry reading / Jules Supervielle |
| | 1967/09/02 | TL[c] | from Merton | Must answer you together as I can hardly keep up with mail in any case. I have Teo's letter in | |
| [to Teo Savory and Alan Brilliant] Merton's tape played to them by Ping Ferry with "Big Zulu piece" and the "Unending Description" / Albert Camus piece for Unicorn Journal could be on <i>The Stranger</i> (already wrote on <i>The Plague</i> / Victor Hammer's press / Merton possibly translating Rene Char |
| | 1967/10/31 | TL[c] | from Merton | So many things to say. I am very sorry about your brother, and I will say Mass for him in the | |
| would like to do piece on a race war in the Yucatan from the previous century for magazine - must ask J. Laughlin for use of "Roman Nocturnes" / thoughts about "unreason and blood" in the outside world - "worst thing would be blind and passive acceptance" |
| | 1967/10/no? | HLS | to Merton | I want to call you Tom, at times, but it seems a bit brusk; I feel very humble before you, if you'll | |
| [no date - Merton seems to address this letter in his 1967/10/31 message - labeled "I. Personal Part" - end of 4th page states, "Now to Part Two of this, if you're not winded" - no part two extant - possibly what someone labeled 1967/11/25] speaks of her brother, Robert Ernest Dustin, and his death / Victor Hammer / Eric Gill |
| | 1967/11/25 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for the Mass for my brother, in your green world. Is that world white now, or not yet? | |
| "Vietnam Winter" / Thoreau and Emerson / authors for the next <u>Unicorn Journal</u> / Folio 3 dedicated to Langston Hughes - has "The Originators" |
| | 1967/11/25? (#02) | TNS | to Merton | II. Journal and French Series Part. Unicorn Journal...first issue, April 1st, material needed here | |
| [includes "partial and tentative list of contents for first issue, due April, 1968" for <u>Unicorn Journal</u>: A Journal of the Arts, Humanities and Civil Rights, published biannually - could be part two of 1967/10/00? letter] list includes Merton's essay on Camus |
| | 1967/12/10 | TL[c] | from Merton | Just a quick letter: here is the Race War piece. I finished that easily with the material fresh in | |
| sending "Race War" piece / may not be able to write piece on Camus' <i>The Stranger</i> until February |
| | 1968/04/14 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | I hope you will like it. Myself, after such pangs, I <u>see</u> it - as handsome and distinctive, | |
| <u>Monks Pond</u> / returning "A Catch [of Anti-Letters?]" |
| | 1968/04/14? (#02) | other | to Merton | Flagstaff [-] Before dawn what to say about Flagstaff? (turning in my head for days and days) | |
| [poem sent to Merton - Unicorn Longsides, "Printed by Noel Young" (1968)] |
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