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Merton's Correspondence with:

Frank Steele

Steele, Frank, 1914-  printer

 
 

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967
Volume: 8 item(s); 10 pg(s)

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Biography

Frank Steele was editor of Tennessee Poetry Journal. Steele writes from Martin, Tennessee, asking for a contribution from Merton. Merton's "A Round and a Hope for Smithgirls" appeared in the second issue of Tennessee Poetry Journal in 1968:1 (winter).

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#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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1. 1967/08/25 TALS to Merton TENNESSEE POETRY JOURNAL is a new journal scheduled for fall publication, 1967. «detailed view»
2. 1967/09/05 TALS to Merton We like your poem "Secular Signs" very much and plan to use it in our first issue. At present, «detailed view»
3. 1967/09/08 TAL[c] from Merton Thanks very much for your letter of the 5th and for the enclosed surprise. I am glad to help out [Merton's handwritten note at the bottom of the page: "Smithgirls" - likely he submitted his poem "A Round and a Hope for Smithgirls" to Steele] «detailed view»
4. 1967/10/01 TLS to Merton We are sending you copies of TPJ today or tomorrow and hope that you will enjoy our poets. «detailed view»
5. 1967/10/08 TLS to Merton We have sent some copies of Vol. I, No. 1, to you. If you can possibly find the time, we would asking for feedback for journal «detailed view»
6. 1967/10/16 TL[c] from Merton First, let me get the practicalities out of the way: I did not get the letter and check Merton's feedback for journal: notes on regionalism and identity as Southerners - his strange identity as Southerner living near Bardstown, a past refuge for many French emigrants like himself and Gethsemani's first monks / structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss vs. criticism by Paul Ricoeur - structuralist view of South «detailed view»
7. 1967/11/03 TL[c] from Merton Here is the Joycean piece I spoke of. It was written eight or nine years ago and I never got «detailed view»
8. 1967/11/10 TLS to Merton Thanks a lot for your card and for the encouraging words. About poems you sent: «detailed view»

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