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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964-1965

Volume: 5 item(s); 7 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Deming, Barbara".

Biography

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›.)

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1964/10/09 TLS[x]from Forest, JimI am writing to you in haste, wanting to do little more than share with you a paragraph  [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]
 1964/11/21 TLSto MertonIt meant very much to me to receive your note, and the several beautiful essays. I have felt very  [in addition to the original at the Merton Center, there is a carbon copy at Radcliffe]
 1964/11/26 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter. I will not argue about unilateralism, since I have recently been arguing  [in addition to carbon at the Merton Center, there is a signed copy, no anotations, at Radcliffe]
 1964/11/no? HNS[x]from Merton+ thanks for lending me you fine poems, articles and stories -- I feel very close to you  [note by Merton on the cover of "The Tragedy of Father Perrin"]
 1965/12/19 TL[c]from MertonOf course since I do not know you I cannot give you the precise advice that you need. But if you  [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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