This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Johnson, Ronald".
Ronald Johnson was a poet and common friend of Merton's with poet Jonathan Williams. Merton sent Johnson one of his drawings and Johnson sent Merton some of his poems, including his book The Green Man.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1. |
1967/05/01 |
TLS to Merton |
Please forgive me for not writing sooner to thank you warmly for the drawing you sent via Jonathan. |
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«detailed view» |
2. |
1967/06/12 |
TLS to Merton |
This is just a quick note to say I am sending The Green Man to you today. All has gone through |
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«detailed view» |
3. |
1967/06/23 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for Green Man who has now come at the best of the season and whom I have |
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«detailed view» |
4. |
1967/06/28 |
TLS to Merton |
Your Rites have that without-which-nothing: they make the hair rise on the back of one's |
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«detailed view» |
5. |
1967/10/12 |
TALS to Merton |
I am, of all places, in The City Of The. . . Angels? sitting under what can only be called |
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«detailed view» |
6. |
1967/11/27 |
TLS to Merton |
It suddenly occurs to me that I wrote you a letter from Los Angeles with a bastard address. |
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«detailed view» |
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