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Merton responds to a letter from Ted Tatman who was at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He sends one of his mimeographed circular letters with a handwritten note.
Note that Rev. Theodore Nelson (Ted) Tatman later in life legally changed his name to Theodore N. McGill.
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See also the "Circular Letters to Friends (for mimeographing)" 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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1968/02/17? |
TALS from Merton |
The approach of Lent once again makes me realize that the only way to handle the pile of letters |
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[a photocopy of the letter was sent in June of 2010 with the original purchased an estate auction in 2024 - date from postmark - labeled "PRE-LENT LETTER 1968" - Merton's annotation at the top of the letter, "I appreciate your kind letter. Best wishes TM"]
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1968/12/16 |
TLS to Tom (not Merton) |
Tonight I am lonely. At first I thought it was depression. Depression is, or has been, most of me |
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[written "Dear Tom" but not to Thomas Merton - Tatman knows of Merton's death and refers to him as "Thomas" throughout the letter / it includes a poem about Merton by Tatman, "my father died last Tuesday in bangkok"]
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