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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Seitz, Ron, 1935-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 6 item(s); 13 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Ron Seitz is a poet, author and essayist and a former professor of creative writing at University of Louisville and Bellarmine University. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but traveled extensively as a young man and took a variety of different jobs before returning to Louisville.

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Related Information and Links

See also contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 103, 164, 326; and see also the "Stone, Naomi Burton" 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
 1968/01/29 TL[c]from MertonThanks much for poems. They are very good ones. Maybe I am prejudiced because I read them sitting   
 1968/02/07 TLSto MertonThanks for liking my poems. Was surprised as hell. I still think you musta had 4 or 5 cold ones   
 1968/03/08 TLSto Mertonso skipped this morning the teachin (all that talk, the noise of it chilling) & lit   
 1968/06/26 TALSto MertonJust a short note Tom to thank you for my poem in POND #2 & also thank you for meeting beautiful   
 1968/06/26 (#01)TALSto MertonJust a short note Tome to thank you for my poem in POND #2 & also thank you for meeting   
 1968/06/26 (#02)otherto MertonREQUIEM [-] <u>for Pop Seitz my grandfather</u> [-] to begin-- [-] a dingdong bloom of bells  [3 poems by Seitz sent to Merton: "for Pop Seitz my grandfather", "HAPPENING for Dick Sisto", and "POET THIS MORNING"]
        

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