Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987 (Series 29, numbered entries)" file

Single Item Record 003 for the Date:
1968/March/17 

Series:  29  Dom James Fox files from Gethsemani Abbey, files on Merton's vocation crisis and reaction to Monica Furlong's biography, transferred to Merton Center 2018.

Type:  TLS - Typed signed letter.

To/From:   from Botteman, Robert / to Merton  "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987 (Series 29, numbered entries)"-->

# of pages:  8

Published in:  

First Lines:  "Sachant que vous vous intéressez aux religion non-chrétiennes et au monachisme d'Extrême-Orient,"

Contents:  [one page letter (French) from Fr. Robert A. Botteman, O.C.S.O. from the Abbey of Orval, Belgium, and a seven page proposal (English) regarding plans for "A Monastic Study Center" bringing together monks of different religious traditions - no file in Merton letters nor reference in journal, so letter may have been kept from Merton] Fr. Raimundo Panikkar (Raymond Panikkar / Raimon Panikkar Alemany)

Language:  French

Source or donor:  Gethsemani Abbey Archives

Date received:  2018/02/19

Date added:  2018

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987 (Series 29, numbered entries):" Series 29: 003   1968/March/17