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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Shelly, Maynard, 1925-2009

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1961-1963

Volume: 10 item(s); 14 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Merton included his November 27, 1961 letter to Maynard Shelly as letter four of the "Cold War Letters." Copies of other letters to and from Shelly have been added to the file in 2019 from the Mennonite Library and Archives, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas.

Biography

Maynard Shelly was editor of The Mennonite, the weekly publication of the General Conference Mennonite Church. He published Merton's poem, "Chant to Be Used in Processions around a Site with Furnaces," in the November 21, 1961 issue of The Mennonite. Maynard visited Merton at Gethsemani in August of 1962 and wrote an editorial in The Mennonite about his visit.

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Related Information and Links

See also Cold War Letters #4 published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 22-23.

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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.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1961/08/28 TALS[x]from MertonThe Catholic Worker passed on your request to use the poem I wrote about the extermination camps.   
 1961/11/14 TL[x]to MertonWe are using your poem "Chant to be Used in Processions Around a Site with Furnaces" in our issue of   
 1961/11/21 other[x]by MertonChant to be Used in Processions Around a Site with Furnaces  [photocopy of a poem by Merton from <u>The Mennonite</u> / verso: magazine contents with a brief blurb about Merton (copy is blurry)]
 1961/11/27 (#01)transcriptfrom MertonThank you for your kind letter of Nov. 14. I am looking forward to receipt of the copyYes [Cold War Letters #4 - transcript from bound set]
 1961/11/27 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonThank you for your kind letter of Nov. 14. I am looking forward to receipt of the copyYes  
 1962/01/16 TL[x]to MertonThank you so much for your kind letter of November 27. It was indeed a personal letter and it has   
 1962/07/25 TL[x]to MertonIn making my plans for my summer trip to the East, I recalled your invitation in our correspondence   
 1962/09/22 TL[x]to MertonIt was so good to be able to visit with you last month. Hardly a day has gone by that our family has   
 1963/04/23 (#01)TL[x]to MertonEnclosed is a copy of a recent issue of our magazine in which we published a report on the Vatican   
 1963/04/23 (#02)other[x]to MertonEDITORIAL [-] Last summer I sat for one hour under the trees in a Trappist monastery. It was the end  [copy of an editorial from the March 23, 1963 issue of <u>The Mennonite</u> in which Shelly describes his meeting with Merton in August 1962 and which includes a photograph of Merton and Shelly (article and photo are blurry)]
        

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