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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Shepherd, Robert Marshall

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967-1968

Volume: 12 item(s); 20 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Shepherd, Robert Marshall".

Biography

Bob Shepherd was a friend of Merton's from Lexington, Kentucky. He worked in communications and public relations offices at Transylvania College and at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also Meeting Carolyn and Victor Hammer & Thomas Merton by R. Marshall Shepherd, copy also in correspondence file.

Other Finding Aids

If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/05/23 HNSto MertonI am taking the liberty of sending you this note   
 1967/07/04 TALSto MertonCarolyn has asked me to write to you to let you know that Victor is once again in hospital,  Victor Hammer in critical condition at hospital / Ashley Montagu and similar tone in Merton's <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i>
 1967/07/10 TLSto MertonI am writing this at the office as I did not have time to write at home this morning.  Victor Hammer's death
 1967/08/21 TAL[c]from MertonI must not delay any longer to send back Dom Bede's letter. It was good to read it. Perhaps if he   
 1967/08/22 TLSto MertonThank you for the return of the letter. I found it very honest and his difficulties much as I   
 1967/09/23 TALSto MertonI apologise [sic] for having sent those Traven books to you sans note or comment, but I had fully   
 1967/11/25 TALSto MertonI didn't intend the long silence to last quite so long. It began as a consideration for allowing   
 1968/04/24 (#01)TALSto MertonI apologise [sic] for the long silence but it seems that I have been busy with something or other   
 1968/04/24 (#02)otherto MertonTRANSYLVANIA WOMAN'S CLUB [-] Spring Meeting [-] Luncheon [-] "Portrait of a Poet"  [program for the spring meeting of the Transylvania College Woman's Club in Lexington, Kentucky - includes a program, "Portrait of a Poet", based on works by Merton and directed by Prof. William Thompson]
 1968/06/05 TALSto MertonI had planned to answer your letter yesterday but got involved in a couple of conferences and other   
 undated/05/01 HNS[x]from MertonI'll try to remember to have a copy of Cables for you the 4th. Haven't done any calligraphies   
 undated/12/23 HNS[x]from MertonMany thanks for cards, clippings etc. As I told Carolyn I might, I regret that I must change places   
        

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