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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Steele, Frank, 1914-

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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 8 item(s); 10 pg(s)

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Biography

Frank Steele was editor of Tennessee Poetry Journal. Steele writes from Martin, Tennessee, asking for a contribution from Merton. Merton's "A Round and a Hope for Smithgirls" appeared in the second issue of Tennessee Poetry Journal in 1968:1 (winter).

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/08/25 TALSto MertonTENNESSEE POETRY JOURNAL is a new journal scheduled for fall publication, 1967.   
 1967/09/05 TALSto MertonWe like your poem "Secular Signs" very much and plan to use it in our first issue. At present,   
 1967/09/08 TAL[c]from MertonThanks very much for your letter of the 5th and for the enclosed surprise. I am glad to help out  [Merton's handwritten note at the bottom of the page: "Smithgirls" - likely he submitted his poem "A Round and a Hope for Smithgirls" to Steele]
 1967/10/01 TLSto MertonWe are sending you copies of TPJ today or tomorrow and hope that you will enjoy our poets.   
 1967/10/08 TLSto MertonWe have sent some copies of Vol. I, No. 1, to you. If you can possibly find the time, we would  asking for feedback for journal
 1967/10/16 TL[c]from MertonFirst, let me get the practicalities out of the way: I did not get the letter and check  Merton's feedback for journal: notes on regionalism and identity as Southerners - his strange identity as Southerner living near Bardstown, a past refuge for many French emigrants like himself and Gethsemani's first monks / structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss vs. criticism by Paul Ricoeur - structuralist view of South
 1967/11/03 TL[c]from MertonHere is the Joycean piece I spoke of. It was written eight or nine years ago and I never got   
 1967/11/10 TLSto MertonThanks a lot for your card and for the encouraging words. About poems you sent:   
        

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