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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Morgana, Dante J.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1961-1967

Volume: 7 item(s); 8 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Morgana, Dante J.".

Biography

Dr. Dante J. Morgana, a medical doctor and Benedictine Oblate (Frater Augustinus Morgana), writes from Buffalo, New York. He seems to have spent some time (1961?) as a postulant at Gethsemani Abbey.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1961/01/06 HPCS[x]from MertonGood to hear from you again and many thnaks for the gift. I think the question of your vocation   
 1962/01/11 TLS[x]from MertonThank you so much for your most generous gift which you enclosed in your Christmas Greetings  Merton praises Morgana on his fluency in Latin and speaks of his hope that Latin will be preserved for use in monastic Masses and the Divine Office
 1962/12/20 HNS[x]from MertonI will certainly keep you in my prayers - honestly it does not look as if you were to end  [note written to Morgana on a typed letter from Br. Basil of Gethsemani]
 1965/04/05 TLS[x]from MertonI have no difficulty remembering so unusual a postulant as you were, and I was happy to read your   
 1967/07/24? HLSto MertonUt me extramnunc inter viventes dinumerare possis ad te hanc epistolam mitto.   
 1967/08/04? (#01)TL[c]from MertonOr Fr Augustine. Thanks for your letter in flawless Latin. I certainly must answer in English,   
 1967/08/04? (#02)TLS[x]from MertonOr Fr Augustine. Thanks for your letter in flawless Latin. I certainly must answer in English,   
        

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