The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Leeman, Richard

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1959

Volume: 1 item(s); 2 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Leeman, Richard".

Biography

In 1959, Richard Leeman was working on a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he lived with his wife and two children.

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Series	Date	Type	To/From	First Lines	Pub	Full Text	Notes
	1959/10/29	TLS	to Merton	I pray that you will be permitted to read and, at your convenience, send me a short reply to this			article on Mt. Athos in August 1959 <u>Jubilee</u> - possibility of a flexible lay contemplative life in the West established around a monastic community - not a substitute for a missed calling but a deeper fullness in marriage / failed attempts by lay couples on their own without guidance from an established community

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