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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Zmuda, Robert".
At the time of writing to Merton, Robert Zmuda was an 18 year old student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He sent some poems, one of which Merton published in Monks Pond. After graduation from high school, he planned to go into Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Corbin, Martin" file; and see also contributions to Monks Pond, Volume 2.
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.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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| 1. |
1967/04/16 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Hope you are out of the hospital, and your health has returned. Thanks for the note- you made me |
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| 2. |
1967/04/16 (#02) |
other |
THE INTERNATIONAL POETRY FORUM Presents MARK VAN DOREN In THE FIRST ANNUAL INSTITUTE |
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1967/04/16 (#03) |
HLS from Corbin, Martin |
Although I was impressed by the quality of your poem and might have used it if I had received it in |
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[from Martin J. Corbin of the Catholic Worker of Tivoli, New York, to Zmuda - originally written on 1967/03/31 and forwarded to Merton]
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undated/no/no |
other to Merton |
SPRING [-] Soft off [-] In the lemon hills [-] And patches of snow [-] Young bulls [-] Low like |
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[13 poems by Zmuda sent to Merton]
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| 5. |
undated/no/no |
HLS to Merton |
Thank you for looking over my poetry -- considering and accepting one for your magazine. |
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