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Rachel Carson was a writer on ecology and a naturalist poet. She is best known for The Silent Spring, a controversial book about the harmful use of pesticides like DDT.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also one published letter from Merton to Carson as a "Postscript to the Cold War Letters" in Witness to Freedom, pp. 70-71; and see also the "Ford, Anne" file.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1963/01/12 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Ann Ford very kindly sent me your latest book, SILENT SPRING, which I am reading carefully |
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[handwritten note: "APPENDIX to COLD WAR LETTERS"] environmental destruction / "with my friends Erich Fromm and D.T. Suzuki, I have been absorbed in the idea of the mystical and poetic expression of the doctrine of the 'fall' of man and original sin" / atomic age / Merton's "own follies with DDT" that he's renounced
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1963/01/12 (#02) |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Ann Ford very kindly sent me your latest book, SILENT SPRING, which I am reading carefully |
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[handwritten note: "If you want I can send you the ms book of mine on nuclear war"] environmental destruction / "with my friends Erich Fromm and D.T. Suzuki, I have been absorbed in the idea of the mystical and poetic expression of the doctrine of the 'fall' of man and original sin" / atomic age / Merton's "own follies with DDT" that he's renounced
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