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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Chatterji, N.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1965-1966

Volume: 3 item(s); 4 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

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Related Information and Links

See also one letter from Merton published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 172-173.

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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.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1965/10/21 TLSto MertonIn connection with a book I am writing on <u>Rabindranath Tagore &amp; the West</u> (in which I am  asks thoughts on Tagore's influence on the English-speaking West / list of "Tagore's earliest champions in the West": "Yeats &amp; Pound, Hart Crane &amp; Joyce Kilmer, Gide &amp; St-John Perse, Anna de Noailles &amp; Jouve, Jiménez &amp; Neruda" / Tagore's vogue corresponds to Spengler and Keyserling
 1965/10/29 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your kind letter in which you ask for my personal reaction to Rabindranath Tagore.Yes appreciation of Tagore by Merton's father and mother (Owen Merton and Ruth Merton) / Merton mostly knows from plays by Shaw and Ibsen - has book of his translations of Kabir - "admire[s] his ideas" but thinks he "is dated in some ways" / admires two other Indians more - Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy
 1966/03/21 TALSto MertonIt staggers me to realize that your kind letter on Tagore -- &amp; the two books "Chuang Tzu"  quoting Merton in his book on Tagore / Ananda Coomaraswamy's <i>Theory of Art in Asia</i> / T. S. Eliot / asking to visit Merton / "Original Child Bomb"
        

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