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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Lurana, Mary, Sr., S.B.S.".
Sr. Lurana was a Missionary Sister of the Blessed Sacrament from New Orleans, Louisiana. At the time of correspondence, she was Exhibits Director for an art Xavier University and arranged to have Merton's art displayed there.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Pick, John" file.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1964/12/07 |
TALS to Merton |
Two of our Sisters returning from the Southern Association meeting of last week tell of the exhibit |
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1964/12/14 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am glad that two of your sisters saw the exhibit of drawings in Louisville. Since I have been |
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1965/01/07 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Tomorrow I will be able to make one of my rare trips to Louisville and see about getting the other |
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[labeled January 7, 1964, but the year seems to be a typographic error on Merton's part given the context of these letters and related correspondence (see files for Landes and Sr. Mary Charlotte, etc.)]
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1965/01/12 |
HLS to Merton |
We are happy to learn that your drawings will soon be on their way to us. |
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1965/01/18 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I have notified Catherine Spalding College and the picture framers to send the drawings collect, |
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1965/01/19 |
TL[c] to Landes, Aloys |
At the request of Father Merton, we are today shipping some of his drawings which we exhibited here |
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[see also "Landes, Aloys R." file]
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1965/02/04 |
TALS to Merton |
As of today the second shipment of drawings was hung on exhibit in our Student Center, and we hasten |
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1965/02/11 |
HLS to Merton |
Enclosed is the promised clipping. We are hoping to have a few photos taken tomorrow for you. |
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[Sr. Lurana encloses a newspaper clipping from the New Orleans Times-Picayune from 1965/02/07 - in newspaper clippings file]
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1965/02/12 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Your letter appals [sic] me. I had no idea that so much trouble went with the shipping of a few |
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1965/02/22 |
TL[c] from Pick, John |
I was most grateful for all your trouble in telephoning me by long distance recently, and this will |
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[from John Pick of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and copied to Merton - see the "Pick, John" file for hard copy of this letter]
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1965/02/24 |
TL[c] from Pick, John |
I was most grateful for all your trouble in telephoning me by long distance recently, and this will |
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[from John Pick of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and copied to Merton - see the "Pick, John" file for hard copy of this letter]
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1965/02/26 |
TLS from Pick, John |
Today I checked over carefully the inventory of Thomas Merton's drawings (an exciting adventure |
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[from John Pick of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and copied to Merton - see the "Pick, John" file for hard copy of this letter]
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