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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Derzelle, Albert, Dom, O.C.S.O. (Prior of Caldey)

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1952

Volume: 1 item(s); 2 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Derzelle, Albert, Dom, O.C.S.O. (Prior of Caldey)".

Biography

Dom Albert Derzelle was Prior of Caldey, a Trappist monastery on Caldey Island off of Wales.

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Related Information and Links

See published letters from Merton to Derzelle in The School of Charity, pp. 45-47.

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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.
   

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

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1952/10/16 TL[c]from MertonI had delayed for some time in writing to you since I thought perhaps a letter from you might be onYes problem of <i>Sign of Jonas</i> going to print and advertisement before getting Dom Albert's approval as censor - asks permission to continue with publication and retaining as a journal / Merton states, "the whole idea of a Journal has always appeared to me as an indecency-- although I enjoyed writing it"
        

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