MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Shelly, Maynard, 1925-2009
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1961-1963
Volume: 10 item(s); 14 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Merton included his November 27, 1961 letter to Maynard Shelly as letter four of the "Cold War Letters." Copies of other letters to and from Shelly have been added to the file in 2019 from the Mennonite Library and Archives, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas.
Biography
Maynard Shelly was editor of The Mennonite, the weekly publication of the General Conference Mennonite Church. He published Merton's poem, "Chant to Be Used in Processions around a Site with Furnaces," in the November 21, 1961 issue of The Mennonite. Maynard visited Merton at Gethsemani in August of 1962 and wrote an editorial in The Mennonite about his visit.
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See also Cold War Letters #4 published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 22-23.
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