MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Kaderli, Elizabeth Land
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1962, 1965
Volume: 3 item(s); 4 pg(s)
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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Kaderli, Elizabeth Land".
Biography
Elizabeth Land Kaderli was planning to publish a book containing letters she had received concerning the subject of death from prominent scientists, religious leaders, artists, musicians and authors. Merton had written her in 1962, but no there are no extant letters in the Merton Center collection. Some of the other correspondents included Mark Van Doren, Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, Robert Oppenheimer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Eleanor Roosevelt, Julian Huxley, Paul Tillich, J. Frank Dobie, Leonard Bernstein, C.S. Lewis, Graham Greene, and Katherine Anne Porter. Kaderli intended the book to be entitled Letters to Carrie, which did not seem to have been published, possibly due to too many restrictions on usage permissions. Merton gives his consent.
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