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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Sisson, Elbert R. (and Grace Sisson)".
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›.)
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
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.
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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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1962/03/no? (#01) |
transcript from Merton |
Friends have been keeping me supplied with information, and as a result I have seen Visible |
✓ |
[Cold War Letters #44 - transcript from bound set]
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1962/03/no? (#02) |
other from Merton |
GRACE'S HOUSE [-] On the summit: it stands on a fair summit |
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[transcript of poem written by Merton for Grace Sisson in thanks for her father sending a picture she drew of "Grace's House" - published in Collected Poems of Thomas Merton]
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1962/04/15 |
TALS to Merton |
In your letter several weeks ago you enquired about Szilard. Enclosed is a copy of a speech |
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1962/06/26 |
TALS to Merton |
Many thanks for the mimeographed binder of letters and the "book" that just arrived, Peace |
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1962/08/02 |
transcript from Merton |
I was very happy with your letter and above all with the pictures, especially the drawings |
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[Cold War Letters #94 - transcript from bound set]
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| 6. |
1962/no/no? |
other[x] from Sisson, Grace / to Merton |
GRACE'S HOUSE! |
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1964/05/26 |
TALS to Merton |
Thank you for the paper on Father Perrin and the booklet on Prior Guigo. I guess you have been |
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1965/01/16 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Your letter of November 25th is here answered and I have reason to be glad that it is, because Will |
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1967/05/13 |
TL[c] from Merton to Grace Sisson |
Of course I remember you and your drawing. If I did not answer in a big hurry, it was because |
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1967/05/no |
HLS from Sisson, Grace / to Merton |
You mayn't remember me, but I'm the little kid who sent you the picture "Grace's House." |
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[verso: drawing by Grace Sisson entitled, "The Road to Joy"]
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