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Fr. Raymond Roseliep was a Catholic priest and poet. He was born in Iowa and spent almost all of his life in Dubuque with the exception of his seminary studies at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. When he first wrote to Merton, he was an English professor at Loras College in Dubuque. After suffering some health problems, he became a chaplain from 1966 through the rest of his career at Mount Saint Francis in Dubuque. In the 1960's, he began to experiment with concrete poetry and Merton publishes Roseliep in Monks Pond, volumes 2 and 4. In the 1970's, he became best known for his use of the haiku, sometimes taking the pseudonym Sobi-shi. (Source: "Roseliep, Raymond." Biography from American National Biography. 2004. Wilson Biographies Plus. Online. H.W. Wilson. Bellarmine University Library, Louisville, KY. 27 Feb. 2006. ‹http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com›.)
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1963/11/19 |
TLS to Merton |
You must not even consider that what I am going to ask you is a bold request--because my students, |
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1964/02/08 |
TLS to Merton |
Your "Message to Poets" is great; it's really a kind of poem itself: "here is the water of life. |
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1964/02/26 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Sorry so many days have gone by since your letter. I get swamped once in a while and then |
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1964/09/17 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
It was good to hear from you at Georgetown and to get the charming card of the dancing girl off |
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1965/05/31 |
TL[c] from Merton |
You can be sure that I will keep you in my prayers, such as they are. I am very sorry to hear you |
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1966/07/11 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Glad to hear from you and to know that you are settled. On the whole it sounds fair enough, though |
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1967/04/15 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks so much for your letter, poem and concern. No, I don't see Triumph but a somewhat hostile |
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1967/04/28 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks greatly for your wonder-ful letter, the Smithgirls poem, the Zen book: what riches you have |
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1967/04/28 (#02) |
other[x] to Merton |
ON HIS RETURN [-] Frog is frog green |
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[mimeograph of poem by Roseliep with a handwritten note from Roseliep to Merton]
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1967/04/28 (#03) |
other to Merton |
Superior at New Melleray to Head Monastery in Ireland [-] Peosta. - Announcement is made |
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[newspaper clipping from The Witness of Dubuque, Iowa, 1967/04/20]
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1968/01/09 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am very sorry indeed to hear of your loss. It is especially hard at such a time, and I know what |
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1968/01/12 |
TALS to Merton |
Your letter was a lift. And thanks. Thanks greatly. I have been busy getting Mom's house in order |
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1968/02/29 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Sorry to have been so long answering. I had forgotten than [sic] running a magazine would mean |
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1968/03/21 |
TLS to Merton |
I took my first splash into MONKS POND today. Invigorating. What a brave, beautiful think you have |
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1968/06/28 |
TLS to Merton |
Here is my fling at the concrete, which I'd like to offer for your consid. for MONKS POND. |
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1968/07/03 |
TPCS to Merton |
I know who would appreciate greatly being on your mailing list for all the issues of MONKS POND: |
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[verso: color photograph of a monk engaged in Lectio divina outside at New Melleray Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa]
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1969/05/17 |
HNS to Laughlin, James |
To Mark Van Doren, Tom Merton's ideal of a friend and teacher [-] Raymond Roseliep 17 May 1969 |
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[handwritten note on page clipping (pages 53-54 of The Catholic World, May 1969) with Roseliep's poem, "thomas merton" and article verso by Rosemary Haughton, "Signs of the Times"]
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