Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Giroux, Robert, 1914-2008" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1958/October/29 

Series:  11  Miscellaneous Correspondence

Type:  TLS - Typed signed letter.

To/From:   from Merton to Aleksei Surkov 

# of pages:  3

Published in:  Courage for Truth

First Lines:  "I am writing this letter to you today as a sincere friend of literature wherever it may be found,"

Contents:  [from Merton to Aleksei Surkov of the Soviet Writers' Union in Moscow - Merton writes to Surkov concerning the expulsion of Boris Pasternak from the Soviet Writers' Union for his negative portrayal of the brutality of the Soviet regime in its early years in the book Dr. Zhivago]

Language:  English

Source or donor:  Giroux, Robert

Date received:  2006/08/08

Date added:  

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Giroux, Robert, 1914-2008:" Series 11:    1958/October/29