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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Sisson, Elbert R. (and Grace Sisson), 1916-2000

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1967

Volume: 10 item(s); 13 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Elbert R. (Bert) Sisson writes from Bryans Road, Maryland. After retiring from active duty in the army in 1945, he worked for the federal government until 1972. He was a political activist and liberal democrat, once running for public office in 1974, but withdrawing when his wife took ill. He was opposed to the Vietnam War and wrote a book under the pen name Rory McCormick, entitled Americans against Man (New York and Cleveland: Corpus Books, 1970). (Source: Sisson, Maura A. Obituary of Elbert Sisson. Genealogical website. Accessed 3 May 2006. ‹http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/richard/aqwg203.htm›.)

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Related Information and Links

See also Cold War Letters #44 published in Witness to Freedom, p. 38; Cold War Letters #94 published in The Road to Joy, pp. 323-324; and see also a letter to his daughter, Grace Sisson, in The Road to Joy, pp. 352-353.

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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
 1962/03/no? (#01)transcriptfrom MertonFriends have been keeping me supplied with information, and as a result I have seen <u>Visible</u>Yes [Cold War Letters #44 - transcript from bound set]
 1962/03/no? (#02)otherfrom MertonGRACE'S HOUSE [-] On the summit: it stands on a fair summit  [transcript of poem written by Merton for Grace Sisson in thanks for her father sending a picture she drew of "Grace's House" - published in <i>Collected Poems of Thomas Merton</i>]
 1962/04/15 TALSto MertonIn your letter several weeks ago you enquired about Szilard. Enclosed is a copy of a speech   
 1962/06/26 TALSto MertonMany thanks for the mimeographed binder of letters and the "book" that just arrived, <u>Peace</u>   
 1962/08/02 transcriptfrom MertonI was very happy with your letter and above all with the pictures, especially the drawingsYes [Cold War Letters #94 - transcript from bound set]
 1962/no/no? other[x] from Sisson, Grace / to MertonGRACE'S HOUSE!   
 1964/05/26 TALSto MertonThank you for the paper on Father Perrin and the booklet on Prior Guigo. I guess you have been   
 1965/01/16 TL[c]from MertonYour letter of November 25th is here answered and I have reason to be glad that it is, because Will   
 1967/05/13 TL[c] from Merton to Grace SissonOf course I remember you and your drawing. If I did not answer in a big hurry, it was becauseYes  
 1967/05/no HLS from Sisson, Grace / to MertonYou mayn't remember me, but I'm the little kid who sent you the picture "Grace's House."  [verso: drawing by Grace Sisson entitled, "The Road to Joy"]
        

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