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Bamberger, John Eudes, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1926-2020

Series 1, Merton-Bamberger Correspondence from Gethsemani-Merton Files

Descriptive Summary

Record Group:	Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials:	1951-1984
Volume:	215 item(s); 257 pg(s)

In these intramural letters, Merton and, at that time, fellow monk of Gethsemani, Bamberger, exchange thoughts about community life, the admission of new novices, and about each others writing. In some of these letters, Merton expresses problems he has w

Biography

Dom John Eudes Bamberger stepped down as abbot of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Genesee in 2001. He came to Gethsemani in 1951 after having read The Seven Storey Mountain in the navy. He was sent to Washington, D.C., for studies in the psychiatric

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Series List

Series Number	Series Name	Total Records
1	Merton-Bamberger Correspondence from Gethsemani-Merton Files	15
2	Miscellaneous Merton Memorabilia	12
3	Correspondence from Bamberger's Files with Other Monks Regarding Gift Book Donations	17
4	Correspondence from John Eudes Bamberger's Files with Other Monks Regarding Merton's Medical Conditions	40
5	Merton-Bamberger Correspondence from Bamberger's Files	131

Container List

Series#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
Series 1 #1. «All Series«	No.000a 1966/08/no	TALS[x] from Merton	Our talk yesterday has been fruitful in this: it has suggested some helpful perspectives anyway.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #2. «All Series«	No.000b 1966/08/03	TALS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your note of the other day. It was helpful and more clear than our talk, and I will		«detailed view»
Series 1 #3. «All Series«	No.000c 1966/08/no	TL[x] from Merton	I am really very grateful for your kind and clear note of yesterday. It certainly allays many		«detailed view»
Series 1 #4. «All Series«	No.001a 1967/03/11 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	This is not anything urgent, but I am just beginning to wonder. Br Martin has been doing some		Spanish poet [Alberti] translation of a work about Rome / question about continuing Sunday conferences - "I feel that […] these kids do not really understand what I am talking about" «detailed view»
Series 1 #5. «All Series«	No.001b 1967/03/11 (#02)	TALS[x] from Merton	This is not anything urgent, but I am just beginning to wonder. Br Martin has been doing some		Spanish poet [Alberti] translation of a work about Rome / question about continuing Sunday conferences - "I feel that […] these kids do not really understand what I am talking about" «detailed view»
Series 1 #6. «All Series«	No.002a 1967/03/12 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your reassuring note. It did clear things up a bit and I would not be surprised if I		plans to outsource typing / Br. Martin and the Alberti poem / continuing his Gethsemani Sunday conferences / comments said about Bamberger «detailed view»
Series 1 #7. «All Series«	No.002b 1967/03/12 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your reassuring note. It did clear things up a bit and I would not be surprised if I		plans to outsource typing / Br. Martin and the Alberti poem / continuing his Gethsemani Sunday conferences / comments said about Bamberger «detailed view»
Series 1 #8. «All Series«	No.003a 1967/05/04 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Through the devious workings of Providence I have now fallen into the hands of a new doctor who	✓	new doctor for allergies / new diet / book on Foucault on madness - doctors as creative artists and sees himself as "masterpiece of medical camp" / requests literature on allergies «detailed view»
Series 1 #9. «All Series«	No.003b 1967/05/04 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Through the devious workings of Providence I have now fallen into the hands of a new doctor who	✓	new doctor for allergies / new diet / book on Foucault on madness - doctors as creative artists and sees himself as "masterpiece of medical camp" / requests literature on allergies «detailed view»
Series 1 #10. «All Series«	No.004a undated/04/28 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for letting me see your essay on Basil. I think you are on to something important. First		diathesis / P. Charles Dumont - want translation into French of Evagrius / sending an article / issues of "the mag" [Monks Pond?] well received by poets «detailed view»
Series 1 #11. «All Series«	No.004b undated/04/28 (#02)	TALS[x] from Merton	Thanks for letting me see your essay on Basil. I think you are on to something important. First		diathesis / P. Charles Dumont - want translation into French of Evagrius / sending an article / issues of "the mag" [Monks Pond?] well received by poets «detailed view»
Series 1 #12. «All Series«	No.005 undated/no/no	TLS to Merton	Fr. Prior just gave me your note about B. Martin and the Conferences. I did not see the note he		Br. Martin's reaction to Merton's work and whether a monk should be controversial / Merton's Conferences / unsettling effect Merton has on people, including Bamberger at times «detailed view»
Series 1 #13. «All Series«	No.006a undated/no/no (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for the tip about Reiteznstein and recluses. In what source is this found and do we have it	✓	whether to accept the "levitating postulant" / criteria in choosing people «detailed view»
Series 1 #14. «All Series«	No.006b undated/no/no (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for the tip about Reiteznstein and recluses. In what source is this found and do we have it	✓	whether to accept the "levitating postulant" / criteria in choosing people «detailed view»
Series 1 #15. «All Series«	No.007 1965/07/19	TLS from Fortune, Carl	I have been very slow in writing you because I thought I would get a summary from the hospital which		«detailed view»

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