This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Chaigne, Hervé, Fr., O.F.M.".
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. |
1964/07/12 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Mon ami et votre traducteur Martin Corbin m'a dit que vous vouliez quelque pages de moi sur la crise |
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Chaigne's interest in having some of Merton's writings on the race crisis / Camille Drevet / Merton's introduction for sayings of Gandhi on non-violence / no need to send this short work - covered by anthology by Peter Jack
«detailed view» |
| 2. |
1964/07/19 |
TLS to Merton |
Un très grand merci pour votre si amicale acceptation. Nous sommes très heureux que vous puissiez |
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"Black Revolution" - asking to send Chaigne more articles on the subject of racial strife in the U.S. / plans to do a small book on Gandhi and non-violence - asking to translate some of Merton's articles
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| 3. |
1964/08/17 |
TLS to Merton |
De retour de quelques jours de vacance passés en famille, je me fais une joie de vous remercier |
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thanks for Merton's articles on blacks in America and "The Monk in the Diaspora" - suggests article on aggiornamento of religious life
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| 4. |
1964/09/09 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Voici le petit livre des sélections de Gandhi, avec mon introduction. J'espère qu'il vous plaira |
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Robert MacGregor from New Directions to handle arrangements for Gandhi book / "The Monk in the Diaspora" - looking for other essays to couple with this for a book / thanks for copies of Frères du Monde / Mounier / Thich Nhat Hanh
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| 5. |
1964/10/05 |
TLS to Merton |
Je commence par m'excuser du retard que j'ai pris à répondre à votre lettre et à l'envoi de votre |
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large end-of-the-year issue of Frères du Monde to feature the topic of evangelization in question / Gandhian non-violence and Christian non-violence for a chapter in the upcoming book / translation of "Eight Freedom Songs"
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| 6. |
1964/10/24 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Je viens de recevoir votre lettre et "Le Moine au diaspora." Et c'est demain qu'on célèbre la fête |
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on combining "The Monk in the Diaspora" and Gandhi articles for a book / sending other monastic essays, including one prepared for the preface for The Meditations of Fr. Delp / Vietnamese monks and Buddhist renewal / upcoming election - Goldwater versus Johnson / Marie Tadié / German protestant pastors
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| 7. |
1964/12/28 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am finally getting around to thanking you for the issues of Frères du Monde and especially |
✓ |
"Monk in the Diaspora" was used in another book - sending replacement for small book / working with New Directions for Gandhi book - avoiding dealings with foreign agent [Marie Tadié] / retreat and discussion at Gethsemani past November with peace workers A. J. Muste and Jim Forest / Jacques Ellul and technology
«detailed view» |
| 8. |
1965/01/16 |
TLS to Merton |
Merci de votre lettre si encourageante. Je crois que notre numéro sur les "Noirs américains" a fait |
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Jacques Amalric's favorable review of Merton's article on black Americans / Italian publication Edizioni Morcelliana wants to translate Christianity and the Racial Question in the U.S.A." / Fr. Charles Dumont of Collectanea wants "The Monk in the Diaspora / asking if Merton would like him to send some Ellul books
«detailed view» |
| 9. |
1965/04/21 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Easter has brought us some nice days here, and I am once again trying to catch up with mail, |
✓ |
"The Monk in the Diaspora" / Marie Tadié / "Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought" / censors do not like writings on nuclear war and monastic reform / Ellul's pessimism - connection between mechanical efficiency and the war machine in Vietnam / Christian non-violent revolution in South America / Simone Weil
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| 10. |
1965/06/27 |
TL[c] from Merton |
The two books of Ellui reached me yesterday. I am deeply grateful to you for your kindness. |
✓ |
Marie Tadié and having to send monastic essays to Albin Michel, who have first rights to them in France - will send replacement articles to Chaigne / the Freedom Songs set to music to [Alexander Peloquin] be sung by a black soloist / peace movement in the U.S. - active only sporadically / Vietnam a "war of machines"
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| 11. |
1965/10/05 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Please forgive my long silence and my delay about the book I promised you. The manuscript |
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Italian book of essays, Fe e Violenza [Faith and Violence] / Marie Tadié - "sometimes difficult" and an "aggressive agent" / sending Gandhi book and piece on "schema 13" from the Second Vatican Council / Merton happy about Pope Paul's speech at the UN against Vietnam War / India and Kashmir war
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| 12. |
1966/02/24 |
TALS to Merton |
Je dois commencer par m'excuser bien vivement de mon trop long silence, alors pourtant que vous avez |
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"Open Letter to the American Hierarchy" / Congress of Peace in Helsinki / contents of book Foi et Violence [Faith and Violence] to be translated into French by Marie Tadié - additions to book - "Schema Thirteen", "St. Maximus the Confessor", and "The Answer of Minerva" (pacifism in Simone Weil)
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| 13. |
1966/06/05 |
TLS to Merton |
J'ai laissé passer bien du temps depuis la lettre si amicale où vous me faisiez part de votre |
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visit to Taizé - attractive life of Protestant religious - Franciscans there who say the office with the Protestant brothers, have an English Mass and accept Catholics and Protestants in the sacrament of Reconciliation / "Blessed Are the Meek" for publication / Marie Tadié and Foi et Violence
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