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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Zmuda, Robert, 1950-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 5 item(s); 17 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

At the time of writing to Merton, Robert Zmuda was an 18 year old student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He sent some poems, one of which Merton published in Monks Pond. After graduation from high school, he planned to go into Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also the "Corbin, Martin" file; and see also contributions to Monks Pond, Volume 2.

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
 1967/04/16 (#01)TLSto MertonHope you are out of the hospital, and your health has returned. Thanks for the note- you made me   
 1967/04/16 (#02)other THE INTERNATIONAL POETRY FORUM Presents MARK VAN DOREN In THE FIRST ANNUAL INSTITUTE   
 1967/04/16 (#03)HLSfrom Corbin, MartinAlthough I was impressed by the quality of your poem and might have used it if I had received it in  [from Martin J. Corbin of the Catholic Worker of Tivoli, New York, to Zmuda - originally written on 1967/03/31 and forwarded to Merton]
 undated/no/no otherto MertonSPRING [-] Soft off [-] In the lemon hills [-] And patches of snow [-] Young bulls [-] Low like  [13 poems by Zmuda sent to Merton]
 undated/no/no HLSto MertonThank you for looking over my poetry -- considering and accepting one for your magazine.   
        

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