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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Corsanego, Cecilia

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963-1965, 1971

Volume: 12 item(s); 18 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Cecilia Corsanego was a student at Pro Civitate Christiana in Italy. She was writing a thesis on Merton's poetry and asks for his assistance.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See one published letter from Merton to Corsanego in The Road to Joy, pp. 325-327.

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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
 1963/04/25 (#01)TL[c]from MertonI will try to answer your questions as best I can. It seems to me that in general you are seizingYes  
 1963/04/25 (#02)TALS[x]from MertonI will try to answer your questions as best I can. It seems to me that in general you are seizingYes  
 1964/01/18 TLSto MertonThere has passed a long time since I wrote you last. It was April and I was in Assisi. Many things   
 1964/01/31 (#01)TL[c]from MertonI am afraid that everything conspires to make this an unsatisfactory reply to your letter   
 1964/01/31 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonI am afraid that everything conspires to make this an unsatisfactory reply to your letter  [includes extra handwritten note to accompany poetry book <i>Emblems of a Season of Fury</i>]
 1964/02/28 HPCSto MertonMany thanks and best greetings from Cecilia Corsanego  [verso of postcard: interior of cathedral in Palermo, Italy]
 1964/05/09 HPCSto MertonA prayer for you, from, Cecilia Corsanego  [verso of postcard: interior of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy]
 1964/05/31 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter and congratulations on your degree. I am glad everything worked out all   
 1964/05/31 (#02)TALS[x]from MertonThanks for your letter and congratulations on your degree. I am glad everything worked out all   
 1965/05/26 HPCSto Merton   [verso of postcard: Virgin and shrine of El Pilar in Zaragoza, Spain]
 1971/06/09 TLSto Center from Corsanego, CeciliaI thank you for your letter. It is a pleasure for me to take part in increasing the knowledge   
 1971/07/08 TL[x]from Center to Corsanego, CeciliaPlease accept my sincere apology for being so long in answering your kind donation of photo-copies   
        

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