MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Sisson, Elbert R. (and Grace Sisson), 1916-2000
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1962-1967
Volume: 10 item(s); 13 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Sisson, Elbert R. (and Grace Sisson)".
Biography
Elbert R. (Bert) Sisson writes from Bryans Road, Maryland. After retiring from active duty in the army in 1945, he worked for the federal government until 1972. He was a political activist and liberal democrat, once running for public office in 1974, but withdrawing when his wife took ill. He was opposed to the Vietnam War and wrote a book under the pen name Rory McCormick, entitled Americans against Man (New York and Cleveland: Corpus Books, 1970). (Source: Sisson, Maura A. Obituary of Elbert Sisson. Genealogical website. Accessed 3 May 2006. ‹http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/richard/aqwg203.htm›.)
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See also Cold War Letters #44 published in Witness to Freedom, p. 38; Cold War Letters #94 published in The Road to Joy, pp. 323-324; and see also a letter to his daughter, Grace Sisson, in The Road to Joy, pp. 352-353.
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