MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Janis, Maria Cooper, 1938-
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1961
Volume: 1 item(s); 1 pg(s)
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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Janis, Maria Cooper".
Biography
Maria Cooper Janis is daughter of actor Gary Cooper. Janis is a painter, is interested in parapsychology, and has recently written a book about her father and his life off camera. A letter she had sent the year of her father's death is not extant, but there is a copy of Merton's reply. He relates having enjoyed watching Cooper movies before entering the monastery and jokes, "I even had a temptation to hope that if the Seven Storey Mountain became a film, he would play in it. This was a clear case of vanity on my part!!"
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