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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Mulloy, Joseph T.".
Joseph Mulloy and his wife, Karen, corresponded with Merton for a number of years. In 1968, it was arranged through a mutual friend for Joseph to meet Merton at Gethsemani. Merton supported Mulloy in seeking Conscientious Objector status for the Vietnam War and wrote a letter to Local Board 47 in Louisville, Kentucky. Despite this, Mulloy was sent to prison. (Source: The Road to Joy, p. 366.)
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also "FBI Materials and CIA Materials" file; and see also one published letter from Merton to Joseph and Karen Mulloy in The Road to Joy, pp. 366-367. For an oral history interview with Joseph Mulloy (Merton is mentioned around 1 hour, 32 minutes), see also: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/catalog/xt7mkk94987b; and a interview with Mulloy's wife Karen (mentions Merton in section beginning at 2 hours, 19 minutes): https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/catalog/xt7d7w675c69.
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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| 1. |
1968/02/19 |
HLS[x] from Merton to Local [Draft] Board #47 - Louisville |
As a spiritual advisor I have been consulted by Joseph Mulloy who is seeking to follow |
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«detailed view» |
| 2. |
1968/03/18 |
other[x] |
LOUISVILLE, Ky.---Joseph Mulloy will be tried in U.S. District Court on April 5 for refusing to be |
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[News clipping from the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) of Louisville, Kentucky]
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| 3. |
1968/03/24 |
HLS to Merton |
I have waited to write you for some weeks now but the press of the law and related factors have kept |
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[originally described as 1968/03/29 (handwriting difficult)]
«detailed view» |
| 4. |
1968/04/14 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
This is to thank you for your letters and to say that this morning I will offer Mass for you. |
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«detailed view» |
| 5. |
1968/04/14 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
This is to thank you for your letters and to say that this morning I will offer Mass for you. |
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«detailed view» |
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1971/02/03 |
TLS[x] to Center from Mulloy, Joseph |
Your letter regarding the establishment of the Merton Studies Center and the invitation to donate |
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«detailed view» |
| 7. |
2008/no/no |
other |
Among the AV [Appalachia Volunteers] organizers to join the AGSLP at this time was Joe Mulloy. |
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[background information on Mulloy from Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945 by Ronald D Eller (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2008), pp. 149-54]
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