MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Bissey, Colomban, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1912-2006
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1950-1967
Volume: 24 item(s); 39 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bissey, Colomban, Dom, O.C.S.O.".
Biography
Dom Colomban Bissey served as Abbot of Melleray in France, the mother house of the Abbey of Gethsemani, from 1958-1986. He conducted visitations to Gethsemani as he was Gethsemani's Father Immediate.
Usage Guidelines and Restrictions
Related Information and Links
See published letters from Merton to Bissey in The School of Charity, pp. 194-195 and 273-274.
Other Finding Aids
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1950/05/29 | HLS | to Merton | Merci de tant coeur pour les deux exemplaires de votre beau livre sur sainte Lutgarde. Je le lirai | |
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| | 1960/02/16 | TL[x] | from Fox, James | We have more pleasant news for you now than in our last letter in regard to the book AELRED DE | |
| [see "Fox, James" file for this letter] <i>Aelred of Rievaulx</i> book by Fr. Amédée (Amadeus of Bricquebec) translation into English - Fox giving consent for Merton to write preface under specified conditions |
| | 1964/01/07 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Voici un petit mot pour vous souhaiter d'abord une bonne année. Et puis quelques réflexions, que | Yes |
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| | 1964/01/07 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Here are a few words for you first of all to wish you a happy New Year, and then some reflections | Yes |
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| | 1964/01/07 (#03) | transcript | from Merton | Here are a few words for you, first of all to wish you a happy New Year. And then some reflections | Yes |
| [copied from annotated typescript in Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2, Box 3] |
| | 1964/01/27 | HLS | to Merton | Merci de votre charmante lettre du 7 et de votre livre "Emblems of a Season of Fury." | |
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| | 1965/04/07 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Vous avez été bien aimable ce matin, je regrette beaucoup de vous avoir indirectement cause des | Yes |
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| | 1965/04/07 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | You were very kind this morning and I am very sorry to have caused you some annoyance by being | Yes |
| [copied from annotated typescript in Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2, Box 3] |
| | 1965/04/28 | HLS | to Merton | C'est de Cîteaux, où je viens d'arriver pour le Ch. G'al presque eu même temps que Dom James, | |
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| | 1965/11/08 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Voici une réponse que j'écris a votre P. Raymond qui m'a écrit, comme vous le savez Je lui dis ma | |
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| | 1965/11/08 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Here is an answer I am writing to your Fr. Raymond who wrote to me as you know. I tell him my | |
| [copied from annotated typescript in Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2, Box 3] |
| | 1965/11/29 | HLS | to Merton | Votre lettre du 8 Nov. m'a causé me immense joie, | |
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| | 1967/01/24 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Bernard, Fr., O.C.S.O. / to James Fox | Vous n'êtes pas sans savoir que notre Père Abbé vient d'être nommé Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, | |
| invitation for Merton to travel to France for Dom Colomban Bissey's induction into the Legion of Honor |
| | 1967/01/24 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Bernard, Fr., O.C.S.O. / to Merton | Vous savez déjà par une indiscrétion de mon Père Prieur (mon frère de sang) la nomination de notre | |
| [see also item number three of the same date, a note from Merton to Dom James Fox, which was typed onto the same page] invitation for Merton to travel to France for Dom Colomban Bissey's induction into the Legion of Honor |
| | 1967/01/24 (#03) | TNS[x] | from Merton to James Fox | What about it? How about a nice birthday present? --You yourself often say it is good for monks | |
| [see also item number two of the same date] invitation for Merton to travel to France for Dom Colomban Bissey's induction into the Legion of Honor |
| | 1967/01/31 | HLS | to Merton | J'aurais voulu vous annonce moi-même, | |
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| | 1967/02/01 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Fox, James | I would not want you to misinterpret my letter which I have written to good Father Bernard | |
| complaint to Dom Colomban Bissey that one of the monks of Melleray, Fr. Bernard, was trying to "induce Father Louis to make a trip across the Atlantic" for Bissey's induction into the French Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor) |
| | 1967/02/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Fox, James / to Fr. Bernard, O.C.S.O. | I presume that you can read english, I hope. I know you have acted in all innocence-- good will-- | |
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| | 1967/02/16 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Voici que je viens un peu en retard pour vous féliciter, mais vous savez bien combien je suis | |
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| | 1967/02/16 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Here I come a little bit late to congratulate you, but you know well how happy I am regarding | |
| [copied from annotated typescript in Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2, Box 3] |
| | 1967/06/12 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | N'ayant pas "l'opportunité" d'aller vous voir cette année, je bien vous faire me | |
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| | 1967/06/12 (#02) | other | | Demande à Père Louis de Gethsemani (Th. Merton) un article comprenant de six à dix pages | |
| [attached to 1967/06/12 letter - memo passed on to Merton] asking Merton to write a short article on the Cistercian tradition from the middle ages to the present / Dom Vital Lehodey - article on the spirituality of St. Theresa of Lisieux / Bissey adds "Comment faites-vous pour la Censure de l'Ordre? J'espère qu'on vous en fait grâce!" |
| | 1967/06/23 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Merci de votre aimable lettre. Je suis content d'avoir de vos nouvelles. Les rédacteurs des | |
| declines offer to do the proposed article on the history of the Order because of current books in the works |
| | 1967/06/23 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your kind letter. I am happy to have received your news. The editors of the Annales | |
| [copied from annotated typescript in Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2, Box 3] declines offer to do the proposed article on the history of the Order because of current books in the works |
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