This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Savory, Teo".
See also "Brilliant, Alan" file.
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. |
1967/05/09 (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
In your splendid book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, I note your mention of a poem by Raissa |
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Raissa Maritain on Chagall - Merton's plans to translate - asks permission to publish / background of Unicorn Press and Unicorn Journal / Merton's photographs of Shaker village of Pleasant Hill / Savory's Massachusetts house in a Shaker area
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1967/05/09? (#02) |
other to Merton |
Unicorn Press [-] Unicorn Book Shop [-] Catalogue [-] Winter / Spring 1967 |
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| 3. |
1967/05/17 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am happy to get your letter and to learn about the Unicorn Press, and the Journal. The Folio has |
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Raissa Maritain's "Chagall" already published in Emblems of a Season of Fury - would like to submit translations of Haitian poets / proposes [sends?] a non-traditional Christmas carol for Unicorn Journal / Shaker photos
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1967/05/29 |
HLS to Merton |
Many with much less to do than yourself do not answer our letters, or do not send us poems. |
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Merton's "Carol" will appear in Unicorn Journal with another poem and poems by Langston Hughes and Tim Reynolds / asks if Merton would do an article about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker / Haitian poets / Merton's drawings / Peace March in Santa Barbara - conservative town, but both wealthy and poor signing petition
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1967/06/30 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Sorry I have taken such a time to answer your last letters: about a month, a little more. Though I |
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hermit's life / Merton thinks that his experience with Friendship House in Harlem and the Catholic Worker was too long ago to write a good article / possibility of a Camus or Kafka article
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| 6. |
1967/08/08 |
HLS to Merton |
A stream, trees overhanging, a steep incline for a hundred feet, there another hundred feet of lawn, |
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Poetry Readings for Peace / Alan Brilliant teaching a student to hand bind books / W. H. Ferry (Ping Ferry) / Savory read "Original Child Bomb" for Unicorn Book Store poetry reading / Jules Supervielle
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1967/09/02 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Must answer you together as I can hardly keep up with mail in any case. I have Teo's letter in |
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[to Teo Savory and Alan Brilliant] Merton's tape played to them by Ping Ferry with "Big Zulu piece" and the "Unending Description" / Albert Camus piece for Unicorn Journal could be on The Stranger (already wrote on The Plague / Victor Hammer's press / Merton possibly translating Rene Char
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1967/10/31 |
TL[c] from Merton |
So many things to say. I am very sorry about your brother, and I will say Mass for him in the |
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would like to do piece on a race war in the Yucatan from the previous century for magazine - must ask J. Laughlin for use of "Roman Nocturnes" / thoughts about "unreason and blood" in the outside world - "worst thing would be blind and passive acceptance"
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| 9. |
1967/10/no? |
HLS to Merton |
I want to call you Tom, at times, but it seems a bit brusk; I feel very humble before you, if you'll |
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[no date - Merton seems to address this letter in his 1967/10/31 message - labeled "I. Personal Part" - end of 4th page states, "Now to Part Two of this, if you're not winded" - no part two extant - possibly what someone labeled 1967/11/25] speaks of her brother, Robert Ernest Dustin, and his death / Victor Hammer / Eric Gill
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| 10. |
1967/11/25 (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
Thank you for the Mass for my brother, in your green world. Is that world white now, or not yet? |
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"Vietnam Winter" / Thoreau and Emerson / authors for the next Unicorn Journal / Folio 3 dedicated to Langston Hughes - has "The Originators"
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| 11. |
1967/11/25? (#02) |
TNS to Merton |
II. Journal and French Series Part. Unicorn Journal...first issue, April 1st, material needed here |
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[includes "partial and tentative list of contents for first issue, due April, 1968" for Unicorn Journal: A Journal of the Arts, Humanities and Civil Rights, published biannually - could be part two of 1967/10/00? letter] list includes Merton's essay on Camus
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1967/12/10 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Just a quick letter: here is the Race War piece. I finished that easily with the material fresh in |
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sending "Race War" piece / may not be able to write piece on Camus' The Stranger until February
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1968/04/14 (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
I hope you will like it. Myself, after such pangs, I see it - as handsome and distinctive, |
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Monks Pond / returning "A Catch [of Anti-Letters?]"
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1968/04/14? (#02) |
other to Merton |
Flagstaff [-] Before dawn what to say about Flagstaff? (turning in my head for days and days) |
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[poem sent to Merton - Unicorn Longsides, "Printed by Noel Young" (1968)]
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