MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Burden, Shirley C.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1959-1961, 1965, 1970
Volume: 8 item(s); 14 pg(s)
Scope and Content
These letters, mostly originals from Burden to Merton, primarily concern the publication of Burden's books of photographs of Gethsemani, entitled God Is My Life. However, they also discuss the Shakers, and Burden may have helped Merton come into contact with Edward Deming Andrews. Merton sends Burden photographs of his drawings in hopes of having them displayed in Santa Barbara with proceeds going to a Negro scholarship and a scholarship at Bellarmine College in Louisville.
Biography
Shirley Burden was a photographer from Beverly Hills, California.
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See also the "Fox, James" file for information about the struggles of publishing a book depicting monks at Gethsemani, and the "Andrews, Edward Deming" and "Andrews, Faith" files for Merton and Burden's shared interest in the Shakers.
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