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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Clark, Benjamin, Fr., O.C.S.O.".
Fr. Benjamin Clark was a monk of Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. He was a novice with Merton and later served as one of his censors. (Source: The School of Charity, pp. 336.)
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also on published letter from Merton to Fr. Benjamin Clark in The School of Charity, pp. 336-337.
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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1967/05/31 |
TLS to Merton |
I'm returning the manuscript of Faith and Violence, and have sent off the nihil obstat to the |
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Faith and Violence - suggests a chapter on Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter / contrast between JFK and LBJ - sacrifice of "New Frontier" vs. self-interest of "Great Society" / Mepkin abbot's interest in ecumenism - Lutheran and Anglican days / trip to Taize / loss of monks at Mepkin / signed "Banjo-man"
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1967/06/30 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for the return of the ms: yes, you are right that the publisher takes care of style, spelling |
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Faith and Violence - getting out of date already with Israeli Arab conflict / Alliluyeva and her writing style / President Johnson - "an operator and something of an opportunist" / Vietnam / Walter Lippmann / losing monks because the Order is "neither real strict and interior or real open and free wheeling"
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