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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Fettig, Anastasius, Fr., O.C.S.O.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 2 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Fettig, Anastasius, Fr., O.C.S.O.".

Biography

Fr. Anastasius Fettig was Prior at Gethsemani at the time of this correspondence. He was reacting to the negative response among some about Merton's pamphlet he distributed before the 1968 abbatial election, "My Campaign Platform for Non-Abbot and Permanent Keeper of Present Doghouse".

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Related Information and Links

See one published letter from Merton to the Gethsemani community, entitled "My Campaign Platform for Non-Abbot and Permanent Keeper of Present Doghouse", in The School of Charity, pp. 356-357.

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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.
   

Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/12/no (#01)HLSto MertonNot a few have been knocking on my door in reference to your latest sally called "My Campaign  [see Section E.1 of the classification under "My campaign platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse" for a carbon and annotated mimeograph of this statement]
 1967/12/no (#02)TN[c]from MertonI have read your note with some surprise. It is true that my leaflet was unnecessarily flippant,   
        

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