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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Hentoff, Nathan Irving".
Nat Hentoff is a prolific writer on such issues as jazz, civil liberties, free speech and education. He had studied at Northeastern University and Harvard, and was a Fulbright fellow at the Sorbonne. After writing for many major media outlets, including Commonweal as a long time regular columnist for the New York Times, he continues to write on music for the Wall Street Journal and has a weekly column in the Village Voice. Merton thanks him for editing a book on the essays of A. J. Muste, and they discuss an essay by Hentoff on Lenny Bruce in a book called Seeds of Liberation. (Source: "Nat Hentoff". The Washington Post online edition: 1998. ‹http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/opinions/hentoff.htm›, accessed 2005/03/29.)
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Keefe, Fred" 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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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1966/11/04 |
HNS to Merton |
My apologies for delaying answering. Very little was written about Bruce. You might be interested |
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1966/11/09 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for the card: we have Seeds of Liberation in the library and I read your article |
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1967/02/18 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Thanks very much for your fine job of editing on A.J.'s collected Essays. It comes just |
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1967/03/11 |
HNS to Merton |
I appreciated your note. I wanted A. J. to have a fat book of his own while he was alive. He saw |
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