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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Deming, Barbara".
Barbara Deming writes from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She was an American author and activist interested in non-violence, war resistance, civil rights, feminism, and gay and lesbian rights. (Source: Biography from Deming, Barbara, 1917- . Papers, 1908-1985: A Finding Aid (MC 408), Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Accessed 11 March 2009. ‹http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/findingAidDisplay?_collection=oasis&inoid=2145›.)
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.
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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1964/10/09 |
TLS[x] from Forest, Jim |
I am writing to you in haste, wanting to do little more than share with you a paragraph |
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[in the Deming papers at Radcliffe, in Merton's correspondence file - Jim Forest quotes to Deming a recent letter of Merton's in which he mentions something she wrote]
«detailed view» |
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1964/11/21 |
TLS to Merton |
It meant very much to me to receive your note, and the several beautiful essays. I have felt very |
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[in addition to the original at the Merton Center, there is a carbon copy at Radcliffe]
«detailed view» |
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1964/11/26 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter. I will not argue about unilateralism, since I have recently been arguing |
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[in addition to carbon at the Merton Center, there is a signed copy, no anotations, at Radcliffe]
«detailed view» |
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1964/11/no? |
HNS[x] from Merton |
+ thanks for lending me you fine poems, articles and stories -- I feel very close to you |
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[note by Merton on the cover of "The Tragedy of Father Perrin"]
«detailed view» |
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1965/12/19 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Of course since I do not know you I cannot give you the precise advice that you need. But if you |
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[moved from Deming file to "Unidentified First Names" - Merton's letter does not seem to respond to the one extant letter of Deming's in this message - there is no corresponding letter in the Deming-Merton file at Radcliffe]
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