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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Casper, Alice Kathryn

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1956-1970

Volume: 20 item(s); 20 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Alice Kathryn Casper lived in Louisville, Kentucky at the time of correspondence with Merton.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/no/no HNS[x]from Merton+ for Alice Kathryn with Christmas prayers and blessings 1962 [-] f m Louis  [note and signature inside the book <i>A Thomas Merton Reader</i>, see Sub-Section B.6 for original book]
 1965/01/02 TL[c]from MertonHave I acknowledged all the Masses you sent in? This morning I said the one for the repentance  Mississippi trial and involvement of a Christian minister and even bishops' "support of great evils" / hope in the Second Vatican Council
 1965/01/05 TALSto MertonEnclosed is offering for your birthday Mass. May the next half century make you 100% one with Jesus  St. John of the Cross / situation in the South
 1965/03/28 TL[c]from MertonThanks for the two Easter Masses and for your good letter. Here we are all more or less down with  responds to Casper's problems with the new liturgy - wrong for some eager to make changes to make others feel like they have been "lazy, selfish, obstructive, etc." in their prior worship - new liturgy is still provisional - need for patience / view on concelebration
 1965/12/25? HNS[x]from Merton+ for Alice Kathryn with my prayers and thanks in the Lord [-] f m Louis [-] Christmas 1965  [note and signature inside the book <i>A Seasons of Celebration</i>, see Sub-Section B.6 for original book]
 1967/05/30 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your remembering my anniversary. I remembered you too in the Mass. Yes, we all need  Dan Walsh / Aunt Kit's operation [Agnes Gertrude Stonehewer Merton from New Zealand]
 1970/01/30 TLS[x]to Center from Casper, Alice KathrynMost of the correspondence I had with Father Louis was in the form of short notes, none of which  permissions for the use of Casper's letters
 undated/no/no (#01)HNS[x]from Merton+to Alice Kathryn many thanks for the Masses .[-] you will be remembered in them - and God bless you  [Merton's signature and inscription on the title page of his mimeograph, "An Exchange of Letters on Monastic Questions [-] Br. M. Louis O.C.S.O. [-] Ronald Roloff O.S.B."]
 undated/no/no (#02)HNS[x]from MertonThis is not a very pleasant topic. Anyway I want to thank you for your kind Feast Day Mass.  [note on title page of mimeograph of Merton's "The Hot Summer of Sixty Seven", essay written August 1967, see Sub-Section D.9 for the signed and inscribed mimeograph]
 undated/no/no (#03)HNS[x]from Merton+with belated thanks for you kind letter and donation of last May - God bless you always - f m Louis  [note on title page of mimeograph of Merton's "Study Sheet - 'The House of Intellect' by Jacques Barzun", see Sub-Section D.9 for the signed and inscribed mimeograph]
 undated/no/no (#04)HNS[x]from MertonThanks for the man. and the letter. You are remembered in all my prayer. A good book is always  [note on title page of mimeograph of Merton's essay "The Universe as Epiphany: The Spirituality of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", see Sub-Section D.9 for the signed and inscribed mimeograph - note in another hand (Casper's?), "Merton doesn't mention Teilhard's use of the term, 'spirituality of matter,' a contradition in terms."]
 undated/no/no (#05)HNS[x]from Merton+to Alice K. Casper - with all prayers. I shall remember you especially in our Mass of Aug 25.  [note on title page of mimeograph of Merton's essay "Meditation", see Sub-Section D.9 for the signed and inscribed mimeograph]
 undated/no/no (#06)HNS[x]from MertonThanks again Alice Kathryn - did I send you one of these? I forget. As to the trials of solitude  [note on title page of mimeograph of Merton's essay "Peace and Protest", see Sub-Section D.9 for the signed and inscribed mimeograph]
 undated/no/no (#07)HNS[x]from Merton+for Alice K. Casper [-] Easter joy in the silent light of the Resurrection, our hope of glory  [note on title page of mimeograph of Merton's essay "Selections on Prayer" (1961), see Sub-Section D.9 for the signed and inscribed mimeograph]
 undated/no/no (#08)HNS[x]from Merton+ for Alice Kathryn Casper with very best wishes and gratitude for your kind hospitality to my aunt  [note and signature inside Merton's book <i>The New Man</i>, see Sub-Section B.6 for original book - Casper seems to have hosted Merton's "Aunt Kit", Agnes Gertrude Stonehewer Merton]
 undated/no/no (#09)HNS[x]from Merton+ for Alice Kathryn with best wishes and prayers in this time of risk - for Christ's peace. bm Louis  [note and signature inside the book <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i>, edited and with contributions by Merton, see Sub-Section B.6 for original book]
 undated/no/no (#10)HNS[x]from Merton+ for Alice K. Casper [-] cordial good wishes and blessings in Xt. f m Louis  [note and signature inside the book <i>Spiritual Direction and Meditation</i>, see Sub-Section B.6 for original book]
 undated/no/no (#11)HNS[x]from Merton+for Alice K. Casper with all blessings. May the Lord dwell in you with light and peace at Christmas  [see Sub-Section B.6, <i>The Christmas Servons of Bl. Guerric of Igny</i>, for original]
 undated/no/no (#12)HNS[x]from Merton+ for Alice Kathryn with warm good wishes - a suitable present for Passion Week! In Our Lord [-] f m  [see Sub-Section B.6, <i>Original Child Bomb</i>, for original]
 undated/no/no (#13)HNS[x]from Merton+ to Alice Casper - with blessings and devoted friendship in Christ Jesus [-] f m Louis  [see Sub-Section B.6, <i>Monastic Peace</i>, for original]
        

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