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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Boyd, Tony

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)

Scope and Content

A grade schooler asks Merton for information about Kentucky music and facts.

Biography

Tony Boyd was a seventh-grader writing from Ashland, Kentucky.

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Related Information and Links

See also published letters from Merton to Boyd in The Road to Joy, pp. 346-347.

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Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/03/20 TL[c]from MertonYou are the first person who ever picked me out as an authority on music. I cannot even play aYes Merton says he can play the bongo drums and likes country music and Johnny Cash / contributes some facts and history about the monastery for Boyd's report on Kentucky
 1967/03/no? HLSto MertonI'm interested in Ky. History and in the 7th grade we are keeping a scrapbook of Kentucky facts.  asks Merton to "send all the information about Kentucky music and Ky. facts that you can"
        

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