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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hickman, Pat

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1938

Volume: 8 item(s); 15 pg(s)

Scope and Content

There are no original letters to or from Merton in this file. It includes "Letters to Pat", a collection of Merton's correspondence with Pat Hickman, edited with an introduction by Paul M. Pearson. Descriptions of the transcripts of these letters are included in the container list below.

Biography

Pat Hickman was Merton's girlfriend for a few months while he was a student at Columbia University in 1938. These letters were written during a week spend with Robert Lax in Olean, New York.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also the extant correspondence published in The Merton Annual, Volume 30 (2017), pp. 21-28..

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

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1938/06/08? transcriptfrom MertonSo I got here, & I'm blue and I'm tired and you know how I miss you. Really it was not aYes [dated 1938/06/09, but Paul Pearson notes that this is a mistake]
 1938/06/09? transcriptfrom MertonHere is another day & this time I feel more awake. I got to bed fairly early last night - aboutYes [dated 1938/06/10, but Paul Pearson notes that this is a mistake]
 1938/06/10 transcriptfrom MertonAfter I wrote you yesterday things became a little bit active up here, but not very. It was suchYes  
 1938/06/11 transcriptfrom MertonI just got your letter and it made me very happy to hear from you dear. I hope you have beenYes  
 1938/06/12 transcriptfrom MertonThanks for your second letter, which I got this morning - it surprised me to get mail on Sunday,Yes  
 1938/06/15 transcriptfrom MertonIt is beginning to seem as if I had been up here an awfully long time, and I am certainly goingYes  
 1968/06/13 transcriptfrom MertonI have turned up in Bradford again - this is the place we came to last Friday. It is a swell town,Yes  
 1968/06/14 transcriptfrom MertonIt was so good to hear your voice yesterday - and it made me want to start for New York right away:Yes  
        

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