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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Innocent, Fr., O.C.S.O.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1951, 1954

Volume: 2 item(s); 6 pg(s)

Scope and Content

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

Biography

Fr. Innocent seems to have been a Trappist monk of Gethsemani. He writes the first letter on a trip to the Benedictine monastery of St-Benoît-du-Lac in Quebec, Canada, which he describes as possessing the idea of "hermits in community".

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1951/10/15 HLSto MertonI will leave unfinished the letter I started and begin anew. It is better to save all my fussing   
 1954/07/10 HLSto MertonThe trip up was very interesting from many points of view. For instance Fr. Thomas saw an M. P.   
        

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