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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Bredenberg, Nancy Fly, 1947-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967-1968

Volume: 8 item(s); 20 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bredenberg, Nancy Fly".

Biography

Nancy Fly Bredenberg was a student attending Vassar College in New York. She asked Merton for some advice on a class paper she was writing.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Bredenberg in The Road to Joy, pp. 361-362; and see also the "Pfeiffenberger, Andrea" file.

Other Finding Aids

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.
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Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/11/28 HLSto MertonI first read your name a little less than a year ago when I noticed an article you had written for  asking for help on writing a paper on Merton's poetry
 1967/12/11 TL[c]from MertonDenise Levertov was here yesterday and in our good visit together I was reminded of Vassar andYes Spanish and Latin American poets / Zukofsky favorite of North American poets / importance of Merton's writing, but out of mainstream writing world - "not a regular 'Catholic poet'"
 1967/12/19 TLSto MertonHow pleased I was to receive your very warm letter! The answers to my questions will be very  Denise Levertov leaving Vassar - connection with the Peace Movement
 1968/02/12 HLSto MertonIf this note seems rather messy and hurried, it's because I'm sitting in the Retreat (Vassar's own  Merton's "Edifying Cables" and Bob Dylan / sending two Vassar student publications Bredenberg edited - <u>Review</u> and <u>Coccatrice</u> / submissions to <u>Monks Pond</u>
 1968/02/22 TL[c]from MertonThanks so much for your letter and the magazines. I appreciate your comments on the Cables.  ✉ sending <i>Cables to the Ace</i> shortly - enjoyed Bredenberg's criticism / Andrea Pfeiffenberger [Andy Pfeiffenberger] / <u>Monks Pond</u> delayed - "monks are going wild printing a lot of new liturgy texts so what do they care about poetry? (And what do I care about liturgy?)"
 1968/03/no? HLSto MertonI'm writing this in a café on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado. Since school got out last Friday  spring vacation hitchhiking to San Francisco / presidential election - Kennedy and McCarthy
 1968/04/03 HLSto MertonHere at last is a poem. It's one that I was more excited about around 3 weeks ago, but I don't know  [mentions sending poem - poem not included with letter] plans of transfer to Berkeley
 1968/04/22 TL[c]from MertonThanks so much for your two letters and the poem. You are very adventurous: that was a good  on Bredenberg's thoughts of transferring from Vassar to Berkeley / Andrea Pfeiffenberger / poems by Pfeiffenberger and Bredenberg / suggested revisions to Bredenberg's poem / David Ignatow and Russel Edson
        

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