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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Delacorte, Valerie

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962

Volume: 4 item(s); 5 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Valerie Delacorte was writing from New York.

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Related Information and Links

See also: Cold War Letters #74, published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 52-53.

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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
 1962/05/22 (#01)TLS[x]from MertonYour letter was wonderful. Itis [sic] a pity I have so little time to write decent letters promptlyYes [Cold War Letters #74] Vietnam War / feminism - women's role in the world / crisis of falsity in the world - women often the target of negative effects of commercialism
 1962/05/22 (#02)transcriptfrom MertonYour letter was wonderful. It is a pity I have so little time to write decent letters promptly,Yes [Cold War Letters #74 - copy from bound, mimeographed set] Vietnam War / feminism - women's role in the world / crisis of falsity in the world - women often the target of negative effects of commercialism
 1962/05/31 HLSto MertonYour letter made us very happy and we are beginning to plan a visit to Rome. -- Would you really   
 1962/10/18? HPCSto MertonI never thought Lourdes will [sic] touch me that deeply - I come here to fulfill a vow - and leave  [verso: color photo of the basilica at Lourdes]
        

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