This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Shepherd, Robert Marshall".
Bob Shepherd was a friend of Merton's from Lexington, Kentucky. He worked in communications and public relations offices at Transylvania College and at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also Meeting Carolyn and Victor Hammer & Thomas Merton by R. Marshall Shepherd, copy also in correspondence 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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1967/05/23 |
HNS to Merton |
I am taking the liberty of sending you this note |
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1967/07/04 |
TALS to Merton |
Carolyn has asked me to write to you to let you know that Victor is once again in hospital, |
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Victor Hammer in critical condition at hospital / Ashley Montagu and similar tone in Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
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1967/07/10 |
TLS to Merton |
I am writing this at the office as I did not have time to write at home this morning. |
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Victor Hammer's death
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1967/08/21 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
I must not delay any longer to send back Dom Bede's letter. It was good to read it. Perhaps if he |
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1967/08/22 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for the return of the letter. I found it very honest and his difficulties much as I |
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1967/09/23 |
TALS to Merton |
I apologise [sic] for having sent those Traven books to you sans note or comment, but I had fully |
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1967/11/25 |
TALS to Merton |
I didn't intend the long silence to last quite so long. It began as a consideration for allowing |
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1968/04/24 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
I apologise [sic] for the long silence but it seems that I have been busy with something or other |
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9. |
1968/04/24 (#02) |
other to Merton |
TRANSYLVANIA WOMAN'S CLUB [-] Spring Meeting [-] Luncheon [-] "Portrait of a Poet" |
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[program for the spring meeting of the Transylvania College Woman's Club in Lexington, Kentucky - includes a program, "Portrait of a Poet", based on works by Merton and directed by Prof. William Thompson]
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1968/06/05 |
TALS to Merton |
I had planned to answer your letter yesterday but got involved in a couple of conferences and other |
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undated/05/01 |
HNS[x] from Merton |
I'll try to remember to have a copy of Cables for you the 4th. Haven't done any calligraphies |
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undated/12/23 |
HNS[x] from Merton |
Many thanks for cards, clippings etc. As I told Carolyn I might, I regret that I must change places |
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