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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Young, Chris".
At the time of writing, Chris Young was a 13-year-old who was planning to enter a high school seminary and someday wanted to be a Trappist monk. A fan of Merton's writings, he wanted to be a writer himself and sent Merton copies of two pieces he had written.
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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. |
1967/10/05 |
HLS to Merton |
I want very much to become a Trappist monk, but under the circumstances it is impossible |
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«detailed view» |
| 2. |
1967/12/08 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I wanted to answer your nice letter personally, though I don't really have time, and it is long |
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«detailed view» |
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