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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Jones, Gracie M.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 1 item(s); 1 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Jones, Gracie M.".

Biography

While visiting Redwoods Abbey in the spring of 1968, Merton met Gracie Jones. (She is of no relation to Frank Jones of Merton's correspondence.) She wrote an article for the San Francisco archdiocesan newspaper after Merton's death discussing the meaningfulness to her of sharing retreat space with Merton, his support for her as an African-American Catholic, and his offer to write a preface for a book she had planned to write, "The Negro and the Catholic Church."

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See also a published version of the one letter, from Merton to Gracie Jones, in this file in the book Thomas Merton in California, p. 421; and see also the appendix of the aforementioned book for an article by Gracie M. Jones for The Monitor (Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco), "4 Days with Merton," pp. 427-34.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1968/07/13 TL[c]from MertonThis is a very inadequate reply to your two fine letters-- and thanks for the pictures that remindYes  
        

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