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Merton and Mwoleka discuss a number of topics, including a Christian's place in the modern world, racial problems, the eremitical life, and the religious traditions of Asia. Merton asks for some books of African poetry and thought.
Fr. Christopher Mwoleka became Bishop of Rulenge in Tanzania in 1969. When he first wrote to Merton in 1967, he explains that he had first read Merton in 1952, and that «Seeds of Contemplation» was an inspiration for him to leave his job as an office clerk and enter seminary. He was ordained in 1962 and would later read a number of Merton's books. Shortly after beginning their correspondence, Mwoleka began teaching at St. Charles Lwanga's Katoke Seminary in Biharamulo.
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See also published letters from Merton to Mwoleka published in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 461-463.
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1967/08/31 (#01) |
TL[c] to Merton |
On the feast of St. John of the Cross 1952, 24th November, passing by a book-stall in Dar es Salaam, |
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1967/08/31 (#02) |
TLS[x] to Merton |
On the feast of St. John of the Cross 1952, 24th November, passing by a book-stall in Dar es Salaam, |
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[from one folder from the "New Directions Publishing" papers at Harvard, entitled "Letters (carbons) to various people, 1967"]
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1967/09/13 |
TLS from Merton |
I was so happy and touched by your warm and kind letter. In this world where there is so much |
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1967/12/27 |
TAL[c] to Merton |
Let me console myself by saying "better late than never" for sending you my Christmas greetings now. |
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1968/02/10 |
TLS to Merton |
When I wrote to you last time, if the letter hadn't been too long I should have said a word about |
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1968/02/24 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
Thanks for your two very good letters. I am most happy and interested to hear about your reaction |
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1968/02/24 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your two very good letters. I am most happy and interested to hear about your reaction |
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1972/09/22 |
TLS to Center from Mwoleka, Christopher |
Your kind letter which I received two years ago is now here before me and find, to my shame, that it |
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1972/10/05 |
TL[x] from Center to Mwoleka, Christopher |
Thank you for your kind letter of September 22 regarding our request for correspondence |
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1972/10/25 (#01) |
TLS[x] to Center from Mwoleka, Christopher |
With reference to your letter of October 5, I am enclosing herewith originals of two letters |
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1972/10/25 (#02) |
TLS[x] to Center from Mwoleka, Christopher |
May I ask for a favour from your Centre. At that Meeting in the Far East after which he died, |
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1972/11/09 |
TL[x] from Center to Mwoleka, Christopher |
Please accept our sincere graditude [sic] for the contribution of your correspondence with Thomas |
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1984/01/18 |
TLS[x] from Shannon, William / to Christopher Mwoleka |
I am a priest of the diocese of Rochester, New York and have taught for some years in one of our |
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