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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Seitz, Ron".
Ron Seitz was a poet, author, essayist, and a former professor of creative writing at University of Louisville and Bellarmine University. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but traveled extensively as a young man and took a variety of different jobs before returning to Louisville.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 103, 164, 326; and see also the "Stone, Naomi Burton" file.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1968/01/29 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks much for poems. They are very good ones. Maybe I am prejudiced because I read them sitting |
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1968/02/07 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks for liking my poems. Was surprised as hell. I still think you musta had 4 or 5 cold ones |
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1968/03/08 |
TLS to Merton |
so skipped this morning the teachin (all that talk, the noise of it chilling) & lit |
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1968/06/26 |
TALS to Merton |
Just a short note Tom to thank you for my poem in POND #2 & also thank you for meeting beautiful |
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1968/06/26 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
Just a short note Tome to thank you for my poem in POND #2 & also thank you for meeting |
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1968/06/26 (#02) |
other to Merton |
REQUIEM [-] for Pop Seitz my grandfather [-] to begin-- [-] a dingdong bloom of bells |
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[3 poems by Seitz sent to Merton: "for Pop Seitz my grandfather", "HAPPENING for Dick Sisto", and "POET THIS MORNING"]
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