A grade schooler asks Merton for information about Kentucky music and facts.
Tony Boyd was a seventh-grader writing from Ashland, Kentucky.
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See also published letters from Merton to Boyd in The Road to Joy, pp. 346-347.
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1967/03/20 |
TL[c] from Merton |
You are the first person who ever picked me out as an authority on music. I cannot even play a |
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Merton says he can play the bongo drums and likes country music and Johnny Cash / contributes some facts and history about the monastery for Boyd's report on Kentucky
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1967/03/no? |
HLS to Merton |
I'm interested in Ky. History and in the 7th grade we are keeping a scrapbook of Kentucky facts. |
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asks Merton to "send all the information about Kentucky music and Ky. facts that you can"
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