Nancy Fly Bredenberg was a student attending Vassar College in New York. She asked Merton for some advice on a class paper she was writing.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1967/11/28 |
HLS to Merton |
I first read your name a little less than a year ago when I noticed an article you had written for |
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asking for help on writing a paper on Merton's poetry
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1967/12/11 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Denise Levertov was here yesterday and in our good visit together I was reminded of Vassar and |
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Spanish and Latin American poets / Zukofsky favorite of North American poets / importance of Merton's writing, but out of mainstream writing world - "not a regular 'Catholic poet'"
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1967/12/19 |
TLS to Merton |
How pleased I was to receive your very warm letter! The answers to my questions will be very |
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Denise Levertov leaving Vassar - connection with the Peace Movement
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1968/02/12 |
HLS to Merton |
If this note seems rather messy and hurried, it's because I'm sitting in the Retreat (Vassar's own |
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Merton's "Edifying Cables" and Bob Dylan / sending two Vassar student publications Bredenberg edited - Review and Coccatrice / submissions to Monks Pond
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1968/02/22 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks so much for your letter and the magazines. I appreciate your comments on the Cables. |
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sending Cables to the Ace shortly - enjoyed Bredenberg's criticism / Andrea Pfeiffenberger [Andy Pfeiffenberger] / Monks Pond delayed - "monks are going wild printing a lot of new liturgy texts so what do they care about poetry? (And what do I care about liturgy?)"
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1968/03/no? |
HLS to Merton |
I'm writing this in a café on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado. Since school got out last Friday |
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spring vacation hitchhiking to San Francisco / presidential election - Kennedy and McCarthy
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1968/04/03 |
HLS to Merton |
Here at last is a poem. It's one that I was more excited about around 3 weeks ago, but I don't know |
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[mentions sending poem - poem not included with letter] plans of transfer to Berkeley
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1968/04/22 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks so much for your two letters and the poem. You are very adventurous: that was a good |
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on Bredenberg's thoughts of transferring from Vassar to Berkeley / Andrea Pfeiffenberger / poems by Pfeiffenberger and Bredenberg / suggested revisions to Bredenberg's poem / David Ignatow and Russel Edson
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