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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Corbin, Martin J.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1968, 2002

Volume: 34 item(s); 38 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Merton and Martin Corbin discuss peace and justice issues related to Corbin's involvement with the Catholic Worker Movement. Dorothy Day, co-founder with Peter Maurin of the Catholic Worker Movement, is mentioned in some of the letters.

Biography

Marty Corbin was editor of the Catholic Worker, which published some of Merton's essays.

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See also the "Zmuda, Robert" file.

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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
 1962/01/09 TLS[x]from MertonThank you for several copies of <u>Liberation</u> which reached me recently.  essay by Lanza del Vasto translated by Corbin - France and atomic weapons - Les Amis de Gandhi and Camille Drevet / Catholic pacifism
 1962/01/29 TLSto MertonThank you for your most kind and welcome letters, as well as the literature. I hope you will pardon  Jim Forest / Bob Steed / L'Arche / Mme. Drevet / Fr. Regamey
 1964/06/16 TLSto MertonIt is good to have an occasion for writing to you again. I have been meaning to for some time  Libertarian Press / Tom Cornell / Fr. Herve Chaigne / "Letters to a White Liberal" / Graham Greene / Cuba
 1964/07/12 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter of June 16th. Time has gone fast since it came, and I have just looked at it  Gandhi / New Directions / Fr. Herve Chaigne / Peter Jack / non-violence
 1964/07/12 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonThanks for your letter of June 16th. Time has gone fast since it came, and I have just looked at it  Gandhi / New Directions / Fr. Herve Chaigne / Peter Jack / non-violence
 1966/11/23 TLS[x]from MertonThanks for the information about the Camus article. I will try to arrange things so that  Thich Nhat Hanh / Secular Journal
 1966/no/no TALSto MertonI see that it has been a couple of years since I corresponded with you and I am happy to have  [no date but seems to predate Merton's 1966/11/23 letter] Jim McMurray in hermitage / Aldous Huxley / Roger LaPorte / Thich Nhat Hanh
 1967/02/09 HLSto MertonMy abject apologies for the delay in getting your CWs to you; I had arranged well in advance  Fr. Chaigne / Gandhi / Camus / "Ishi Means Man"
 1967/02/19 (#01)TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for the extra copies of the December issue which reached me the other day.  Freres du Monde / minor operation at hospital / Manas
 1967/02/19 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonMany thanks for the extra copies of the December issue which reached me the other day.  Freres du Monde / minor operation at hospital / Manas
 1967/03/06 HLS[x]from MertonHere is the piece on [indecipherable word..]. You may change the title if you like, but really   
 1967/04/24 TLS[x]from MertonThanks for the Shoshoneans. I will send the review along without rush, some time. It is a good book  Zen
 1967/05/18 (#01)TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for the extra copies of the last CW. Here is the piece on the Shoshoneans.  Ponca Indian / New University Thought
 1967/05/18 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonMany thanks for the extra copies of the last CW. Here is the piece on the Shoshoneans.  Ponca Indian / New University Thought
 1967/05/27 TLSto MertonPlease excuse my delay in acknowledging receipt of the two pieces you sent us. Dorothy and I were  Zen / Cross Currents / Lubac and Danielou / Dr. Stern
 1967/06/02 (#01)TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for your letter. Sure, go ahead with the articles as planned. Is there still time  Note to be added to "The Shoshoneans" article about peyotism / Dom Aelred Graham / Lubac / Buddhism / Zen / Jesuit piety and mysticism
 1967/06/02 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonMany thanks for your letter. Sure, go ahead with the articles as planned. Is there still time  Note to be added to "The Shoshoneans" article about peyotism / Dom Aelred Graham / Lubac / Buddhism / Zen / Jesuit piety and mysticism
 1967/07/09 TLSfrom MertonHow would it be if I did a review article on the books I have marked here, a Maya constellation  Peace News
 1967/07/20 (#01)TALSto MertonDorothy and I are happy that you are going to do a piece on the Mayan civilization.  Indians / Jack Cook - Texas Rangers / Albert Schweitzer / Gene Fontinell / Les Dewart / Zen / Karl Stern / Carl Amery
 1967/07/20 (#02)TL[x]to MertonDorothy and I are happy that you are going to do a piece on the Mayan civilization.  Indians / Jack Cook - Texas Rangers / Albert Schweitzer / Gene Fontinell / Les Dewart / Zen / Karl Stern / Carl Amery
 1967/08/27 HLS[x]from MertonI wrote this for Peace News and thought CW might possibly be able to use it. Do you have the Maya   
 1967/10/05 HLSto MertonDorothy didn't get a chance to acknowledge your letter before leaving for Rome, so she asked me to.  Merton's piece on Auschwitz / Maya books / Wally Kendricks (ex-Trappist) / Zen / German Jesuit / Edwin Muir
 1967/10/11 (#01)TL[c]from MertonAs a matter of fact I got interested in that Indian book and did write about it. So I am sending  Peace News / Auschwitz / Maya books / Zen books / Enomiye
 1967/10/11 (#02)TALS[x]from MertonAs a matter of fact I got interested in that Indian book and did write about it. So I am sending  Peace News / Auschwitz / Maya books / Zen books / Enomiye
 1967/11/10 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThe enclosed long review-article on just two of the Mexican books may turn out to be too long  "Caste War" in Yucatan / Wally Kendrick
 1967/11/10 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonThe enclosed long review-article on just two of the Mexican books may turn out to be too long  "Caste War" in Yucatan / Wally Kendrick
 1967/11/20 TALSto MertonI'm ashamed to see that it's well over a month since I received the enclosed piece and I haven't  Manas / Auschwitz / Camus' "La Peste" / Vietnam War
 1967/11/24 HLSto MertonHope this reaches you before you send the Crow Indian article some place else. After thinking about  publication of Crow article in Catholic Worker / Martin Luther King, Jr. printed quote on Vietnam [verso]
 1967/11/27 (#01)TL[c]from MertonBoth your letters, the one in big envelope with the article and the airmail one got to me today.  "War and Vision" and "Sacred City" articles / Phil Berrigan
 1967/11/27 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonBoth your letters, the one in big envelope with the article and the airmail one got to me today.  "War and Vision" and "Sacred City" articles / Phil Berrigan
 1968/02/13 TALS[x]from MertonHere is a chunk from a new book of mine which might come in handy for CW.   
 1968/03/12 HLSto MertonSorry to take so long in acknowledging the section from "Faith and Violence"  Martin Luther King, Jr. printed quote on Vietnam [verso]
 1968/07/15 TLS[x]from MertonI am enclosing what I consider to be a very worth while article from the Bulletin of the Atomic  Eileen Egans
 2002/10/03 HLS[x]from Robert SteedI recently came into possession of these copies of some correspondence between TM and the late  [written to Br. Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O.] Martin Corbin / letter donation
        

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