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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Jones, Frank

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 1 item(s); 1 pg(s)

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Biography

Frank Jones owned property along the northern California coast at Bear Harbor. While visiting Redwoods Abbey in the spring of 1968, Merton met him and his wife and inquired about land for a new hermitage. By September, Jones agreed he was interested in selling; however, by that time, Merton was considering hermitage locations in Asia.

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See also a published version of the one letter, from Merton to Frank Jones, in this file in the book Thomas Merton in California, pp. 420-1.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1968/07/09 TL[c]from MertonI hesitated to write to you before there were any definite plans here. But now I have worked thingsYes  
        

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