1965-05-17, TALS to Merton, 'que grande pena que Ud. não poderá escrever o Prefácio para meus poemas de Hawaii. '

Stefan Baciu was a poet and professor of romance languages whose works include surveys of Latin American surrealistic poetry and themes of communism in poetry. He was editor of the literary magazine, «MELE». During his time of correspondence with Merton, he is first in Seattle and later in Honolulu.