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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Yandell, Lunsford P., 1902-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964-1968, 1970

Volume: 18 item(s); 32 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Merton and Lunsford Yandell mostly discuss Zen Buddhism and other eastern religions and philosophies.

Biography

In the bulk of the correspondence, Lunsford Yandell writes from Jaffrey, New Hampshire, or Scottsdale, Arizona.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also the "Laughlin, James" file; and see also published letters from Merton to Yandell in Witness to Freedom, pp. 167-168.

Other Finding Aids

If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1964/07/12 HLSto MertonOn June 17th I spent several hours with fine old Dr. D. T. Suzuki up at Butler Hall in New York.   
 1964/07/17 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for your good letter and for all that it contains of encouragement. It was certainly a great   
 1964/07/22 TLSto MertonI do indeed appreciate your kind letter of July 17th giving me information as to where to obtain   
 1964/07/30 HLSto MertonThank you [indecipherable words..] for your note of July 26th. With the address of "<u>New</u>   
 1964/10/29 HLSto MertonI wonder if, in your contacts with literature of and about Zen Buddhism, you have ever come upon   
 1964/12/12 TL[c]from MertonIt was very kind of you to think of sending me the little book of Terence Gray. It is most valuableYes [under the heading "Mr. Lunsford" in <i>Witness to Freedom</i>]
 1965/05/26 TL[c]from MertonYou will certainly enjoy the Nishida book. My review is not yet published as things move veryYes [under the heading "Mr. Lunsford" in <i>Witness to Freedom</i>]
 1966/07/14 HLSto MertonIn a letter from you some months ago you kindly asked me to remind you of your intention to send me   
 1967/02/06 (#01)TLSto MertonAnother note, as you requested, to remind you of your intention to send me a copy of your review   
 1967/02/06 (#02)otherto Merton<u>KNOWING</u> [-] REALITY is the Actor - the role is the "me". Can the role know the Actor?   
 1967/02/06 (#03)otherto Merton<u>SEEKING</u> [-] Search is vain. For to seek God or Truth makes a "that" out of THIS   
 1967/07/12 TLSto MertonThank you very much indeed for sending your "<u>A Christian Looks at Zen</u>", and for drawing my   
 1967/10/05 HLSto MertonYour letter of Sept. 15th, so kindly sending me your review of Nishida's "<u>A Study of Good</u>   
 1967/10/10 TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for your kind letter from Topeka. I will keep looking for the English text   
 1967/12/08 HLSto MertonI sent you by book-post on the 6th the ms. of Shen-Hui, translated by Dr. Richard S.Y. Chi,   
 1968/01/04 TLSto MertonHappy New Year to you! Thank you for your nice note of 12/20/67 and for your trouble in finding   
 1968/05/17 TLSto MertonIt was very good of you to send me THE MONK'S POND! I like it! Both it's conception and it's   
 1970/12/21 TLS[x]from Laughlin, JamesMrs. Lorch has passed along to me your letter of December 14, in which you inquire further   
        

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