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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Forest, Linda".
Linda married James Forest in 1967 and briefly corresponded with Merton.
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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| 1. |
1967/11/18 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
Many thanks for the letter and the cards. The cards are handsome and stark, and I'll probably shout |
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[Merton sent a photograph with the signed letter (as evidenced by the photocopy in the files of the Catholic Peace Fellowship). The photograph is the photograph often labeled "skyhook" or as Merton wrote, "The only known photograph of God."]
«detailed view» |
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1967/11/18 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for the letter and the cards. The cards are handsome and stark, and I'll probably shout |
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«detailed view» |
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1967/12/02 |
HNS from Merton |
Could I please have 2 dozen more of your cards |
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| 4. |
1967/12/09 |
TALS to Merton |
Its such fund [sic] having you for a friend. None of the other kids have a photograph of an angel.. |
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[also contains 1967/12/09 handwritten note from James Forest on Linda' letter to Merton]
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1968/04/06 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
First thanks for ryokan which is v. beautiful. I'll have to take up the question of reproduction |
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1968/04/06 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
First thanks for ryokan which is v. beautiful. I'll have to take up the question of reproduction |
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| 7. |
undated/no/no |
TLS to Merton |
It seems like long ago and faraway that you wrote me that gorgeous note with the |
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