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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Merton, Beatrice Katherine (Aunt Ka)".
Beatrice Katherine Merton was Owen Merton's sister and Tom's Aunt "Ka". She was a nurse in Christchurch, New Zealand. She visited Tom Merton once in 1922 in Douglaston, New York. (Source: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, p. 293).
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also published letters from Thomas Merton to "Aunt Ka" in The Road to Joy, pp. 64-65 and 84-85.
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.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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| 1. |
1964/09/23 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
This summer I have been worse than usual in answering letters and I don't think I have written |
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1968/04/28 |
TL[c] from Merton |
A nun in some New Zealand convent saw Aunt Kit's name in the paper among those lost in the Wahine |
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1970/01/29 |
HLS[x] to Griffin, John Howard |
Thank you for your very good letter. I am so glad you are getting such good care at the monastery. |
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1971/03/05 |
HLS[x] to Griffin, John Howard |
I am sorry. I have delayed a bit in answering your letter of February 25th but I have been thinking |
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