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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Sananes, Mery-Lú

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1966

Volume: 2 item(s); 4 pg(s)

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Biography

Mery-Lú Sananes was a student in the Facultad de Humanidades y Educación at the Universidad Central in Caracas, Venezuela, as were the others that signed his initial letter to Merton: Jaime López-Sanz, Irene Flores, and Ramón Montiel. They write to inform Merton that LAM, a student literary group, translated his poem "Original Child Bomb" into Spanish (as "Niña Bomba Original"). Sananes and López-Sanz did the translation.

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Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Mery-Lú Sananes and Jaime López-Sanz in The Road to Joy, pp. 338-339.

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

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1966/02/10 TLSto MertonBajo el signo de la agrupación LAM, acabamos de publicar en castellano su poema "Niña Bomba Original  [signed by Mery-Lú Sananes, Jaime López-Sanz, Irene Flores, and Ramón Montiel]
 1966/03/07 TL[c] from Merton to Mery Lú Sananes and Jaime López-SanzAfter writing an official letter of thanks in bad Spanish to the whole group, I want to sayYes  
        

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