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Merton, Owen, 1887-1931


Series 3, Owen Merton's letters to his mother, Gertrude Hannah (Grierson) Merton (1855-1956)


Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1909-1926
Volume: 73 item(s); 292 pg(s)

Scope and Content

The bulk of this file contains letters from Owen Merton to his parents and siblings, but other miscellaneous letters are to and from Evelyn Scott and others. Some letters concern his son, Thomas Merton, and his wife, Ruth Jenkins Merton.

Biography

Owen Merton was Thomas Merton's father. He was born in New Zealand, studied art in Paris, and traveled in Europe, Bermuda, the United States, and northern Africa to make a living as a landscape painter.

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Series List

Series NumberSeries NameTotal Records
1 Owen Merton's letters to his father, Alfred James Merton (1857-1931) 6
2 Owen Merton's letters to his sister, Beatrice Katharine (Ka) Merton (1891-1972) 4
3 Owen Merton's letters to his mother, Gertrude Hannah (Grierson) Merton (1855-1956) 43
4 Owen Merton's letters to Evelyn Scott (1893-1963) 9
5 Owen Merton's letters to his sister, Gwynedd Fanny Merton Trier (1885-1986) 7
6 Other miscellaneous correspondence to and from Owen Merton 4

Container List

Series#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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Series 3 #1.
«All Series«		 1910/01/08 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude A very welcome letter came this week to answer me you were all well. Unfortunately I had heard from «detailed view»
Series 3 #2.
«All Series«		 1910/01/19 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Your last letter gave me a moment's start - as it was written in pencil. But I soon realized you «detailed view»
Series 3 #3.
«All Series«		 1910/01/25 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Thanks also for another letter by last mail and I cannot tell you what a joy your letters are to me «detailed view»
Series 3 #4.
«All Series«		 1910/02/08 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude The mail got in early last week and I sought a letter written from «detailed view»
Series 3 #5.
«All Series«		 1910/02/11 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I hardly know how to begin this. There is much news this week. When I was at Aunt Maud's last Sunday «detailed view»
Series 3 #6.
«All Series«		 1910/02/15 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Your letter came on Monday. It always seems to me such a misfortune that it takes three months to «detailed view»
Series 3 #7.
«All Series«		 1910/03/22 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I was glad to have your further chummy news, that Gwynn was at home again, and that everything else «detailed view»
Series 3 #8.
«All Series«		 1910/03/29 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Thanks so much for a grand letter which came this morning. The only thing is you are too kind about «detailed view»
Series 3 #9.
«All Series«		 1910/03/31 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I have a [..] half [..] the mail in. I did not realize it was so late. And I have not written «detailed view»
Series 3 #10.
«All Series«		 1910/04/05 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Last mail thought we a very cheery letter. You make very light of your accident - but it is «detailed view»
Series 3 #11.
«All Series«		 1910/04/19 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Your last letter has come this morning- and its most cheerful and stimulating. I wish I would make [date either April 17th or 19th] «detailed view»
Series 3 #12.
«All Series«		 1910/04/24 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I am writing to you expecting a letter from you tomorrow. It's a Sunday, and I have had young Roger «detailed view»
Series 3 #13.
«All Series«		 1910/05/03 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I am just writing the weekly account, which comes to much the same as usual. I am just quietly «detailed view»
Series 3 #14.
«All Series«		 1910/05/12 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Today having been very wet and stormy I have been mostly indoors. I have had plenty to do, and have «detailed view»
Series 3 #15.
«All Series«		 1910/05/15 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Your letters got to me this morning. (Sunday.) «detailed view»
Series 3 #16.
«All Series«		 1910/05/24 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Letter came this morning. (It seems to be a lifetime since then. The days are so wonderfully long.) «detailed view»
Series 3 #17.
«All Series«		 1910/05/29 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude It was a very welcome letter - Of course you know it is all not talking like that about the R.B.A. «detailed view»
Series 3 #18.
«All Series«		 1910/05/31 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I am just adding a short note to say I am going off tomorrow for «detailed view»
Series 3 #19.
«All Series«		 1910/06/02 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I am here now, and very glad I came. It is a very good thing to have a complete change «detailed view»
Series 3 #20.
«All Series«		 1910/06/14 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I think you so much for your letter which came yesterday enclosing the draft for «detailed view»
Series 3 #21.
«All Series«		 1910/06/23 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I have only time to scrawl a very hasty note to you from here today. I am off tomorrow, and have «detailed view»
Series 3 #22.
«All Series«		 1910/06/26 HL[x] to Merton, Gertrude I am back here - and it is a Sunday, and I am writing now before having letters from you. [no signature - possible missing pages or was continued and sent with June 29th letter] «detailed view»
Series 3 #23.
«All Series«		 1910/06/29 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I am just writing now in a great hurry before going off tomorrow. I have a lot to do today. «detailed view»
Series 3 #24.
«All Series«		 1910/07/06 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I am in Ealing till Friday evening when it seems it will be the only chance of my getting across «detailed view»
Series 3 #25.
«All Series«		 1910/07/08 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I just write today I hope you will get the seeds and the book all right and will like both. «detailed view»
Series 3 #26.
«All Series«		 1910/08/31 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude We have got here tonight, and are in this hotel. Here we shall be for a couple of days. [letterhead of the Grand Hôtel du Cheval Blanc, Angers, France] «detailed view»
Series 3 #27.
«All Series«		 1912/02/30 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I got back last night at 12:30 and have been glad to be in Paris again, and at work. «detailed view»
Series 3 #28.
«All Series«		 1912/03/08 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Only can I send you half a dozen lines this morning to tell you all is going as well as possible. Owen Merton announces his engagement to Ruth Jenkins «detailed view»
Series 3 #29.
«All Series«		 1912/03/12 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude You must be wanting to know more of my words, which I was so foolish as to just give you in such «detailed view»
Series 3 #30.
«All Series«		 1912/03/29 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Apologies are useless. I have been too much absorbed these last weeks to even write you more than «detailed view»
Series 3 #31.
«All Series«		 1912/04/11 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I am here as you see. I came across by Saturday night boat from Dieppe, and I am very glad to be [writing from Ealing] «detailed view»
Series 3 #32.
«All Series«		 1912/04/19 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Just a line to say I am off again to Paris this evening. Alban arrives on Sunday morning early, «detailed view»
Series 3 #33.
«All Series«		 1912/06/27 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude By a mischance I let mail day go by last week. I got so in the habit of thinking Friday was the day [writing from Northiam, Sussex, England] «detailed view»
Series 3 #34.
«All Series«		 1912/07/17 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Last week again you had no letter. I keep thinking today it is Wednesday, when it's really Thursday, «detailed view»
Series 3 #35.
«All Series«		 1912/08/02 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude It seems to me that we are the queerest lot of people here. Here I could write quite well, but I «detailed view»
Series 3 #36.
«All Series«		 1912/08/28 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I think this is only going to be a short note. One seems to have had a good deal to do this work. «detailed view»
Series 3 #37.
«All Series«		 1912/08/no (#01) HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Here when all is going on so well. I have some further grand news from you to say you have sold some «detailed view»
Series 3 #38.
«All Series«		 1912/08/no (#02) HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Now I have had what I deserved, a letter from you to say you feel it that I do not unite «detailed view»
Series 3 #39.
«All Series«		 1912/09/05 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I write now on the morning. I have taken a holiday - being quite disinclined for work. I don't know «detailed view»
Series 3 #40.
«All Series«		 1912/12/28 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude It is already mail day, and I forgot completely until just the minute - It is always the way «detailed view»
Series 3 #41.
«All Series«		 1913/04/30 HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude I have been wondering whether after all my letter of last week reached you, I thought. I posted it «detailed view»
Series 3 #42.
«All Series«		 undated/no/no (#01) HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Your last letter came on Monday. I am making up my mind to whom here instead «detailed view»
Series 3 #43.
«All Series«		 undated/no/no (#02) HLS[x] to Merton, Gertrude Your last letter came on Monday. I am making up my mind to whom here instead «detailed view»

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