The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Whitaker, Thomas, Br., O.S.B.

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963-1964; 1968

Volume: 4 item(s); 4 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Br. Thomas Whitaker and Merton discussed the study the Shakers and a manuscript, purported to be at Gethsemani Abbey, concerning Catholicism in southern Kentucky.

Biography

Br. Thomas Whitaker was a Benedictine monk of St. Maur's Priory in South Union, Kentucky. The monastery was unique in the United States as having been established as a racially integrated community when it was founded in 1947 on the grounds of a Shaker village.

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Series List

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

Container List

Date	Type	To/From	First Lines	Notes
1963/11/18	TLS	to Merton	A week ago Mr. Robert Meader of the Shaker Museum at Old Chatham, N.Y. was visiting here.
1964/04/04	TALS	to Merton	Thanks be to God. I am home again from the hospital. Doctor says the operation on the ruptured	[contains Merton's annotations]
1964/05/13	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter of nearly a month, no, more than a month ago, and for the book.
1968/01/01	TLS	to Merton	A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU. During November, I had an extended vacation due to having passed my 25th

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