This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Boyd, Alda Lee".
Alda Lee Boyd was Publicity Director for the Seabury Press in 1967.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
Regarding the news clipping on Merton's hobbies reprinted from Publisher's Weekly in the New York Post (Publisher's Weekly, Nov. 11, 1967), see also the "Allman, Susan" and the "Belford, Lee Archer" files.
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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1967/10/09 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks for your permission to send the releases about your fields of interest to Publishers' Weekly |
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poems of David Jones / sending comments of poet Chad Walsh to Merton with his comments on the Religious Dimensions in Literature Series - asks Merton for suggested Latin American and Welsh poets for this college course series
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1967/11/06 |
other to Merton |
[…] A HERMIT'S PREFERENCES Seabury Press recently sent Thomas Merton an author questionnaire |
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relates Merton's interests given in an author's questionnaire - "Zen. Indians. Wood. Birds. Beer. Anglican friends. Calligraphic abstract art. Ad Reinhardt. Subversive tape recordings for nuns. Tea. Bob Dylan. Nicaraguan folk art. Quakerism. Shakerism. Novels of Walker Percy. Myth in William Faulkner.", etc.
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1967/11/09 |
TLS to Merton |
I thought you would like to see the attached tear sheet from Publisher's Weekly. They did, indeed, |
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[attaches 1967/11/06 article from Publisher's Weekly]
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