This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Slate, Mary Ellen".
Mary Ellen Slate was married to Merton's Columbia classmate, John Slate.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Slate, John H." file; and see also published letters from Merton to Mary Ellen Slate in The Road to Joy, pp. 302-303.
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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1967/04/19 |
HLS to Merton |
I want to thank you for the many pictures. I am particularly fond of the ostrich-type bird which I |
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1967/04/28 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Watch out for that ostrich road runner type bird. He may look jubilant but he can take any twenty |
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1967/09/22 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
I was shocked and saddened to hear of John's death today when my publisher sent the clipping |
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1967/10/22 |
HLS to Merton |
I share your pleasure that you and John had met and laugh this past Spring. It was comforting to me |
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