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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Weishaus, Joel, 1939-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968, 1971-1972

Volume: 4 item(s); 4 pg(s)

Scope and Content

At the time of writing to Merton, he was living in San Francisco, California. He had heard of Merton's literary magazine, Monks Pond from William Witherup. He sent Merton a haiku, which was published in the fourth volume of Monks Pond.

Biography

Joel Weishaus is a poet and sculptor, who is currently resident writer at the Museu do Essencial e do Além Disso, Bibliothecadas das Marauilhas in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. He has published some of his poetry and haikus, and he wrote the introduction to Woods, Shore Desert, Merton's journal of his trip to New Mexico, California and Alaska.

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Related Information and Links

See also the "Witherup, William" file; and see also contributions to Monks Pond.

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
 1968/06/08 TLSto MertonI received a letter on berry-red paper from William Witherup. And instead of explaining, i'll quote   
 1971/03/03 TLSto Center from Weishaus, JoelBeen trying to find the letter received from Father Merton a few years ago. Remember it was   
 1971/03/23 TL[c] from Weishaus, JoelThank you for your short note about correspondence with Thomas Merton. I'm sorry that you couldn't   
 1972/04/19 TLS[x]from Center to Weishaus, JoelThank you so very much for sending us your letter of Fr. Merton's. Your Spring house clearing   
        

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