MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Grinberg, Miguel, 1937-2022
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1963-1966, 1995
Volume: 35 item(s); 45 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Biography
Miguel Grinberg was a poet from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who has authored a number of collections of poetry. He took over the editorship of Eco Contemporáneo in 1961, a publication to which Merton later subscribed. He came to Gethsemani to meet Merton in March of 1964 while traveling across the United States.
Usage Guidelines and Restrictions
Related Information and Links
See published letters from Merton to Grinberg in The Courage for Truth, pp. 195-204.
Other Finding Aids
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
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1963/05/05 | HLS | to Merton | Hello, here I am, Ernesto Cardenal gave me your address, I've mailed for you the 4 issues we have | |
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| | 1963/06/21 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks very much for your letter. I am very interested in your project, but I am a very bad | Yes |
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| | 1963/08/19? | TALS | to Merton | Hello, I received all the things you sent for us, thank you very much, I will include a few of them | |
| [date from postmark - page starts with a series of questions for Merton labeled "<u>Art and Freedom.</u> 1) Which is art utility ?." - continues for a total of nine questions - in response, Merton wrote the article "Answers on Art and Freedom"] |
| | 1963/11/no | HLS | to Merton | Mea Culpa, sorry for this silence I've given you - but it was better so. - For months I have had | |
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| | 1964/01/17 | TALS | to Merton | Dear Thomas Merton, as I have not had any word from you since my last letter, here I'm thinking you | |
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| | 1964/01/28 | HLS[x] | from Merton | In haste I have written this statement - hope it is all right. I am sending more copies. If you | |
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| | 1964/03/05 | other | | <u>TRES VENTANAS</u> [-] Tuvo que ser [-] Aun en la barriga de la misericordia | |
| [poem "Tres Ventanas" (Three Windows) by Miguel Grinberg - see Merton's journal entry for 1964/03/10] |
| | 1964/03/no? | HLS | to Merton | Here in the New York scene, lot of work, but everything goes fine.- A little limited by problems | |
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| | 1964/04/05 | TAL[c] | from Merton | The copies of Cold War letters are flying in all directions, and I will send more to anyone you like | Yes |
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| | 1964/04/10 | HLS | to Merton | Dear amigo: just leaving the City.- Here some of the pictures.- I'll do better and more | |
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| | 1964/05/06 | HLS | to Merton | Lot of changes since I left your monastery.- This is my 7th week in N.Y.C. I'm better now, and I | |
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| | 1964/05/11 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Reason I did not mention the pictures in writing the letter I sent to California is that I had not | Yes |
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| | 1964/07/07 | TALS | to Merton | Querido amigo, this time Miguel is writing from the Capital of the Nation, an incredible comeback, | |
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| | 1964/07/11 | HLS | to Merton | two girls had a ticket to Louisville, so I remembered Gethsemani.- Here I am, crossing the country, | |
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| | 1964/07/12 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I sent Henry Miller a picture of the two of us in the front garden of the monastery amid cold winds, | Yes |
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| | 1964/07/26 | HLS | to Merton | Yes, I'm here, back from Big-Sur.- will spend a couple of days in Oregon, then back and south | |
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| | 1964/08/16 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter from SF. Two days from now, your birthday, I will send up a rocket with | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/15? | HLS | to Merton | Here Managüa, with friends and melting walls.- The sun is powerful and I keep growing.- Next 25th | |
| [dated by Grinberg "Sept 15/1943" - it is an obviously facetious date and seems to be from 1964] |
| | 1964/10/29 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Today is for poets, and for writing to poets, since the sky has a warm front, it is perplexed, it is | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/12 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Dear Uncle Louie, your good letter is someplace in the midst of this mess, and so, I'm not answering | |
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| | 1964/12/12 (#02) | other | | CRÓNICA LUNAR [-] Tiempo de alzarse y caminar. Caían voraces gotas de lluvia hacia el polvo. | |
| [enclosed with 1964/12/12 letter to Merton - 1964 periodic bulletin from The Angel Press from Buenos Aires containing "Cronica Lunar" by Grinberg] |
| | 1965/01/01 | TL[c] | from Merton | It is January first and the beard of the calendar is shaved. It is now the illusion of a new year. | Yes |
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| | 1965/01/no? | HLS | to Merton | Right here your message, with sound of storms and scent of rains.- The point is that now I'm not | |
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| | 1965/07/17 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Your tulip on the green paper came from the mists and the waves. I have no green paper and no | Yes |
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| | 1965/07/no? | HLS | to Merton | A long cloud since your last silent signals.- Hope you are all right and healthy.- Stormy human | |
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| | 1965/09/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is Uncle Louie out in space hung up in space I got your letter written on the feast of St Louis | |
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| | 1965/11/07 | TALS[x] | from Merton | It was good to get your letter. Yes the tulips grow on the mountain of dogs. I heard from Ludovico | |
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| | 1966/01/19 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I have not had any answer to my last letter, I guess it is coming down. Anyway, the mails are | |
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| | 1966/01/19 (#02) | other | | <u>POESÍA Y REVOLUCIÓN</u> [-] Miguel Grinberg [-] Lo nuevo o lo viejo, ésta es la elección que | |
| [signed typescript of Grinberg's "Poesia y Revolution" - enclosed with 1966/01/19 letter to Merton] |
| | 1966/03/11 | TL[x] | from Merton | I will try to use up the red ribbon. Only economy, nothing more, not politics. I am always glad | Yes |
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| | 1966/10/08 | TL[c] | from Merton | I heard your cry out of the belly of the whale. Have not had much intelligence of events. | Yes |
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| | 1966/10/28 | TL[c] | from Merton | Sun rises in mist with thousands of very soft explosions and I am entirely splashed with designs | Yes |
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| | 1995/07/02 (#01) | TLS | to Center from Grinberg, Miguel | Well, I am again alive and well in Argentina. And I am still rejoicing myself for the splendid | |
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| | 1995/07/02 (#02) | other | to Center from Grinberg, Miguel | NEW SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT Dear Friend: The <i>New Solidarity</i> Movement began in 1963 | |
| [dated February 1964 - sent by Grinberg to Robert Daggy in 1995] |
| | 1995/07/10 | TL[c] | from Center to Grinberg, Miguel | I am glad you are well and alive in Argentina. I made it back to Kentucky all right and I am alive | |
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