Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Collins, Frederic, Br., O.C.S.O." file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1967/November/05 

Series:    

Type:  TALS - Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.

To/From:  to Merton from "Collins, Frederic, Br., O.C.S.O."-->

# of pages:  1

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First Lines:  "It seems that over a year ago I made some kind of a promise to write and tell you how things were"

Contents:  construction of new monastery buildings - extravagant costs for Chile - will be viewed as "the rich North Americans" / lack of priests in Chile and desire to get Merton to go there - opposition by Dom James / desire to elect Merton as prior of La Dehensa despite Merton's vow not to accept abbot of a monastery

Language:  English

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Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Collins, Frederic, Br., O.C.S.O.:"    1967/November/05