BIB_ID
412864
Accession number
MA 22097.2
Creator
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
Display Date
Trappist, Kentucky, 1968 April 16.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.4 cm
Notes
Signed in blue ink "Tom Merton."
Autograph note written in unknown hand in black ink enclosed in a circle at bottom of page: "Mrs. Caroline Herron at Partisan Review."
Typed on letterhead stationery printed: "Monks Pond / Trappist Kentucky 40073."
Autograph note written in unknown hand in black ink enclosed in a circle at bottom of page: "Mrs. Caroline Herron at Partisan Review."
Typed on letterhead stationery printed: "Monks Pond / Trappist Kentucky 40073."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Saying that he was happy to see the short pieces and is keeping the ones he liked the best, "Ideal Business Man," "Fat Man's Unboasting... Flimsy Explanation", "Beast's Skin", "Airy Eccentricity"; adding that he is saving these for the III or IV issue of Monks Pond; stating that he likes his book, but needs to read more of it and write something for Laughlin.
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