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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hinson, Edward Glenn, 1931-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1961-1967, 1971

Volume: 24 item(s); 28 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Glenn Hinson is a Baptist professor who was teaching at Southern Seminary in Louisville at the time of writing to Merton. In the early 1960's, he brought groups of Baptist students to visit Merton at Gethsemani. Later, Dom James Fox asked that Merton stop meeting with such groups because he would require more solitude to fully live the eremitical life. Now officially in retirement, he is a visiting professor at Baptist Seminary of Kentucky in Lexington, Lexington Theological Seminary, Bellarmine University and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

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Related Information and Links

See also the "Fox, James" and "Katzenbach, Nicholas" files; and see also one letter published in Signs of Peace: The Interfaith Letters of Thomas Merton by William Apel, pp120-123.

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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
 1961/05/08 TLS[x]from MertonThis Friday, May 12th, I have some business in Louisville and I thought it might provide   
 1962/12/12 TL[x]to MertonWe enjoyed so much our visit at the Abbey of November 12. Our students speak of the visit often.   
 1962/12/22 TLS[x]from MertonThanks for your letter and for the enclosed clipping. The picture was a real fright, but probably,   
 1964/11/18 (#01)TLSto MertonI have waited several days to write a letter of thanks to you. But now that I have seen your   
 1964/11/18 (#02)TL[x]to MertonI have waited several days to write a letter of thanks to you. But now that I have seen your   
 1964/11/30 TL[x]to MertonI wish to express to you the gratitude of myself and my students for a visit to the Abbey of   
 1964/12/04 (#01)TL[c]from MertonIt has been some time since I got your fine letter and I have wanted to do some thinking andYes  
 1964/12/04 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonIt has been some time since I got your fine letter and I have wanted to do some thinking andYes  
 1964/12/04 (#03)TLS[x]from Fox, JamesI received your gracious letter of November 30 in regard to visits to our monastery, and discussions   
 1967/03/07 (#01)TL[c]from MertonI am enclosing a copy of my letter to Katzenbach. I am afraid that I am so out of touch with things   
 1967/03/07 (#02)TL[c] from Merton to Katzenbach, NicholasI am enclosing a copy of my letter to Katzenbach. I am afraid that I am so out of touch with things  [Merton encloses in a letter to Hinson his letter to Nicholas Katzenbach, United States Undersecretary of State]
 1967/09/01 (#01)TLSto MertonSeveral times last year while I was on my sabbatical leave, I had an urge to write. During travel   
 1967/09/01 (#02)TL[c]to MertonSeveral times last year while I was on my sabbatical leave, I had an urge to write. During travel   
 1967/09/05 (#01)TLS[x]from MertonIt was good to hear from you again and I am glad your sabbatical went off well. Certainly I can   
 1967/09/05 (#02)TL[c]from MertonIt was good to hear from you again and I am glad your sabbatical went off well. Certainly I can   
 1967/09/12 TLSto MertonThanks for answering my letter so promptly. I am pleased that you can confer with Mr. J.T. Baker,   
 1967/09/25 TANS[x]from MertonIf you feel like coming out any time in October or November, I could meet you after lunch in the   
 1967/10/23 TL[x]from MertonPlease excuse me for not replying to your note sooner. Until I had made arrangements for a trip   
 1967/10/30 TLS[x]from MertonI have had to wait a little to confirm some other engagements before I could be sure of a Monday for   
 1967/11/21 TL[c]to MertonI will be down to the Abbey next Monday, November 27. I look forward to this fine opportunity to   
 1971/02/12 TL[c]from Center to Hinson, GlennThank you for the correspondence with Thomas Merton and Abbot James Fox which you sent to us.   
 1982/09/06 TL[c] from Shannon, William / to Glenn HinsonYou may remember that we met at Vancouver in 1978 at the Merton Symposium; and both our talks "made  seeking permission to use letters and recollections of Merton
 1982/09/20 TLS from Hinson, Glenn / to William ShannonThanks for your comment about my review of Monica Furlong's biography. I wondered if anyone else  recollections of Merton
 undated/no/no other EDWARD GLENN HINSON  biographical information about Glenn Hinson
        

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