This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor".
Elisabeth G. Ellis was writing on behalf of Naomi Burton Stone with some editorial questions about Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.
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See also the "Stone, Naomi Burton" file.
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1966/02/28 |
TALS to Merton |
I'm enclosing the copyedited manuscript of CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER for you to go over |
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Merton writes a quote from Po Chü-i at the bottom, "My life is like the crane's who cries a few times under the pine tree [-] And like the silent light from the lamp in the bamboo grove"
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1966/03/09 |
TL[c] from Merton |
The ms of CONJECTURES went off, or should have gone off, yesterday. I do not send these things out |
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