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At the time of writing to Merton, he was living in San Francisco, California. He had heard of Merton's literary magazine, Monks Pond from William Witherup. He sent Merton a haiku, which was published in the fourth volume of Monks Pond.
Joel Weishaus is a poet and sculptor, who is currently resident writer at the Museu do Essencial e do Além Disso, Bibliothecadas das Marauilhas in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. He has published some of his poetry and haikus, and he wrote the introduction to Woods, Shore Desert, Merton's journal of his trip to New Mexico, California and Alaska.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Witherup, William" file; and see also contributions to Monks Pond.
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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1968/06/08 |
TLS to Merton |
I received a letter on berry-red paper from William Witherup. And instead of explaining, i'll quote |
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1971/03/03 |
TLS to Center from Weishaus, Joel |
Been trying to find the letter received from Father Merton a few years ago. Remember it was |
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1971/03/23 |
TL[c] from Weishaus, Joel |
Thank you for your short note about correspondence with Thomas Merton. I'm sorry that you couldn't |
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1972/04/19 |
TLS[x] from Center to Weishaus, Joel |
Thank you so very much for sending us your letter of Fr. Merton's. Your Spring house clearing |
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