MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Davenport, Guy Mattison, 1927-
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967-1968, 1973
Volume: 31 item(s); 34 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Biography
Guy Davenport was a professor of literature at University of Kentucky and author of literary essays, short stories and poetry. He visited Merton's hermitage in 1967 (source: The Courage for Truth, p. 251).
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Related Information and Links
See also published letters from Merton to Davenport in The Courage for Truth, p. 251-254.
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Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1967/01/20 | TLS | to Merton | I am sending you, at Jonathan Williams' request, Ronald Johnson's book of poems -- one | |
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| | 1967/02/20 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter written in the midst of an existential leap from Franklin to Walton | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/20 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter written in the midst of an existential leap from Franklin to Walton | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/20 (#03) | HNS[x] | from Merton | This is the piece I mentioned in my letter. Best wishes [-] Tom. | Yes |
| [mimeographed enclosure copy of Merton's essay "The Spiritual Father in the Desert Tradition" - one page only with Merton's handwriting, a note on title page] |
| | 1967/02/21 | TLS | to Merton | [I salute in kind, without postures of whatever correctness applies, since I'm not certain whether | |
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| | 1967/02/23 | HCS | to Merton | Thank you for so kindly sharing the meditations on the hermits. Spirit dwells in places, | |
| [verso: illuminated manuscript - "Flowers Illuminations - Manuscript XVth - Troyes Library"] |
| | 1967/06/05? | TLS | to Merton | A grand picnic, that. If Gene has developed the pictures, I haven't seen 'em. And one will see | |
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| | 1967/06/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | The book on Bohr that I have just read is the one by Ruth Moore. Quite good, I thought. | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/11 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | The book on Bohr that I have just read is the one by Ruth Moore. Quite good, I thought. | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/11 (#03) | other[x] | by Merton | Note: These "rites", suitably adjusted to fit modern man in his contemporary situation and in his | |
| ["Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper" by Thomas Merton - first page (note insert) copied which has Merton's handwritten corrections and handwritten title] |
| | 1967/06/13 | TLS | to Merton | You should not have sent us anything half so good. It bites deep, the "Rites for the Extrusion of | |
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| | 1967/08/23? | TLS | to Merton | Hier ist die verboten <u>Dichtung</u>. Zuk's cello stradivario, the Rhodesian Mr Montgomery's | |
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| | 1967/08/27 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the Dichtung all full of Wahrheit, Schonheit, Gemutlichkeit, and other keits. | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/27 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the Dichtung all full of Wahrheit, Schonheit, Gemutlichkeit, and other keits. | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/29 | TLS | to Merton | Here's the Prologue to the Rites, copied <u>ad litteram</u> except for a comma inserted after | |
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| | 1967/08/30 | TLS | to Merton | A medievalist I caught on the wing today says that "long-hanjed" derives - it seems to him - from | |
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| | 1967/11/04 | TLS | to Merton | I hope the hermitry is snug tonight, king snake and all. I came across the "Day of a Stranger" this | |
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| | 1967/12/28 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I'vebeen [sic] lost and left behind by all the letters. This is to say I liked (way back) your | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/28 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I'vebeen [sic] lost and left behind by all the letters. This is to say I liked (way back) your | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/08 | TALS | to Merton | I'm just back from visiting my mother, sister, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles in South | |
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| | 1968/03/02 (#01) | TN[x] | from Merton | Herakleitos got crowded out of this one but maybe later. Thanks for the addresses. Keep me in mind | |
| [in Laughlin correspondence in the publishing files of David Cooper - likely copied from a carbon sent to James Laughlin] |
| | 1968/03/02 (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton | Herakleitos got crowded out of this one but maybe later. Thanks for the addresses. Keep me in mind | |
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| | 1968/03/10 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for so kindly sending MONKS POND - it's a lovely magazine. "North' is solid work: | |
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| | 1968/03/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Here at last is the magazine. I am getting much more material than I anticipated and I doubt that | Yes |
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| | 1968/03/11 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here at last is the magazine. I am getting much more material than I anticipated and I doubt that | Yes |
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| | 1968/03/11 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here at last is the magazine. I am getting much more material than I anticipated and I doubt that | |
| [two clippings which could be either enclosures of items kept by Davenport with his last letter from Merton - a newspaper article from the Louisville <u>Courier-Journal</u>, "New Abbot, 36, Is Installed At Gethsemani"; and "books by Thomas Merton - Fr. Louis ocso" (list of books and prices)] |
| | 1973/07/10 | TLS | to Center from Davenport, Guy | Yes, with Prof. Kramer and the Twayne Series. He won't find anything to interest him. La Shelley | |
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| | 1973/11/30 | TLS[x] | from Center to Davenport, Guy | Mr. Victor Kramer at Georgia State University has requested permission to look at your | |
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| | 1973/12/03 | HNS | | Permission rec. by TO'C via [...] 12/3/73 to show - understands the | |
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| | 1973/12/05 | TAL[c] | from Center to Davenport, Guy | Info, please - what is date of birthday of Mary Godwin Shelley and feast day of St. Winfried called | |
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| | 1989/10/22 | TLS | to Cooper, David | I've kept putting off going through ancient files (my sense of orderliness is more apparent than | |
| [copy from Cooper file / original kept here and copy in file] whereabouts of letters from Merton |
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