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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967-1968

Volume: 11 item(s); 13 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Carruth, Hayden".

Biography

Hayden Carruth was owner and operator of Crow's Mark Press in Johnson, Vermont, and has won numerous awards for poetry.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also Day of a Stranger by Thomas Merton, edited by Robert E. Daggy; or "Day of a Stranger" in A Thomas Merton Reader; and contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 97 and 196.

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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
 1967/10/11 TLSto MertonInteresting, incisive, and eloquent, as usual (in the summer Hudson); but you are terribly unfair to  response to "Day of a Stranger" [published in <u>Hudson Review</u>, no. 20 (1967)] - Merton writes, "As to crows, they form part of a different pattern. They are vociferous and self-justifying, like humans. They are not two, they are many. They fight each other and the other birds, in a constant state of war." / SAC plane
 1967/10/20 (#01)TL[c]from MertonI have given your letter deep thought and now I think I have got to the root of the trouble.  on "Ecclesiastical types" mentioned by Carruth / on crow fighting / Merton agrees that "I would rather see this country governed by them [crows] than by the Texas buzzards that are now in control."
 1967/10/20 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonI have given your letter deep thought and now I think I have got to the root of the trouble.  on "Ecclesiastical types" mentioned by Carruth / on crow fighting / Merton agrees that "I would rather see this country governed by them [crows] than by the Texas buzzards that are now in control."
 1967/10/23 TLSto MertonActually I myself prefer ravens: more interesting birds. We haven't many here, and mostly farther  conducts "nicest meditations in the henhouse" / comparison's between Merton's hermit life and Carruth's life on his farm in Vermont
 1968/02/01 HLSto MertonI would be tickled pink to be in your magazine. Right now we are having the Asian (Zen?) flu,   
 1968/02/07 HLSto MertonAre any of these of use to you, or all if they strike you as good enough? R'd welcome suggestions   
 1968/02/29 TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for the fine poems. I want to keep all three, two for summer and one for fall.  [carbon copy is typed over another letter to Carlos Reyes from February 28 making this letter difficult to read]
 1968/03/11 TLSto MertonNote from J Laughlin says you are working on Camus, and would like to look at my book about him:   
 1968/03/19 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your book on Camus. It has just come in and I have only looked at it, but you seem  Merton sending pamphlet on Camus' <i>The Plague</i> and <u>Monks Pond</u>
 1968/03/23 TLSto MertonThanks for your two Camus pamphlets, and the copy of Monks Pond, Vol. 1, No. 1. I haven't had time  Carruth's biography for <u>Monks Pond</u> - his books <i>Nothing for Tigers</i> and <i>Contra Mortem</i> - working on a book about an auto tour of the U.S. / life in the northern Green Mountains and self-sufficient farming
 1973/12/05 TLSto Center from Carruth, HaydenThanks for your letter of the 30th November. My association with Tom Merton was very casual.  permissions to use materials for publication and research
        

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