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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Shaw, Cliff

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 13 item(s); 14 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Clifford Shaw was a composer living in Louisville, Kentucky. He discussed setting some of Thomas Merton's poems to music.

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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
 1959/03/30 TLS[x]from MertonYour note of March 18 reached me and I was very sorry to hear that your health had given out on you.   
 1959/05/22 TLS[x]from MertonThanks for your letter. I am glad to hear that things are going better with you.  [includes a note signed by Cliff Shaw regarding the letter]
 1959/06/18 HLS[x]from MertonThe 24th is a feast day and I regret that feasts are not too convenient for us - if you are coming  [includes a note signed by Cliff Shaw regarding the letter]
 1959/07/17 HLS[x]from MertonSorry to hear of your latest mishap. Have a quiet time - the summer is a good time to be lazy.   
 1959/08/14 TLS[x]from MertonDecidely we are not having very much luck in getting together out here. Yesterday was the one day  [includes a note signed by Cliff Shaw regarding the letter]
 1959/09/30 HLS[x]from MertonI was glad to get your letter. Congratulations on the record, it sounds as if it would be wonderful  [includes a note signed by Cliff Shaw regarding the letter]
 1959/10/08 TLS[x]from MertonI have received and played Eileen Farrell's record and I find the Blake song completely charming.  [includes a note signed by Cliff Shaw regarding the letter] Merton sends suggestions for some songs he hopes Shaw would set to music
 1960/02/06 TLS[x]from MertonThis is a new one- with all the lyricism as it were compressed inside and implicit like a tree   
 1963/11/18 TLS[x]from MertonI was very sorry indeed to hear the sad news about Mary Frances' father - will you please give her   
 1964/02/29 TNS[x]from MertonCongratulations on your success and thanks for letting me know! God bless you fr m Louis  [verso: print of whale and fish - "O ye whales and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord. Benedicite"]
 1967/08/19 TLSto MertonAlthough I do not hear from you, I hope it is permissible to continue to write you. I have been   
 undated/no/no (#01)HLS[x]from MertonI am terribly sorry to miss you. I got your letter and tried to call you to say I  [includes a note - "When received was in copy of Secular Journal which is inscribed to Shaw"]
 undated/no/no (#02)HNS[x]from Merton+for Cliff Shaw with very best wishes f m Louis  [note on the title page of a broadside of "Boris Pasternak and the people with watch chains" by Thomas Merton]
        

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