Merton's Correspondence with:

Fr. Tarcisius Conner, O.C.S.O.; Conner, James, Fr., O.C.S.O.; Fr. Jim Conner, Jim, Fr.

Conner, Tarcisius, Fr., O.C.S.O. (Fr. James Conner)

Descriptive Summary

Record Group:	Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials:	1962-1963, 1966
Volume:	9 item(s); 25 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Conner, Tarcisius, Fr., O.C.S.O. (Fr. James Conner)".

Biography

Fr. Tarcisius Conner was a monk of Gethsemani assigned to the Vatican at the beginning of their correspondence. He writes to Merton from Rome, Paris, and Mont des Cats Abbey in Northern France.

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#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
1.	1962/11/27 (#01)	TAL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your good letter from Paris. It reached me after about five weeks, and I enjoyed it.	✓	Marie Tadié / La communauté et l'abbé dans la règle de saint Benoît by Adalbert de Vogüé - true meaning of cenobitic life - not "chummy picnic cum hairshirts" / merging of two novitiates - monastic formation program by Fr. Flavian / asks for the "inside secrets" of the Second Vatican Council «detailed view»
2.	1962/11/27 (#02)	TALS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your good letter from Paris. It reached me after about five weeks, and I enjoyed it.	✓	[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Accession 2, Hart Working Files] Marie Tadié / La communauté et l'abbé dans la règle de saint Benoît by Adalbert de Vogüé - true meaning of cenobitic life - not "chummy picnic cum hairshirts" / merging of two novitiates - monastic formation program by Fr. Flavian / asks for the "inside secrets" of the Second Vatican Council «detailed view»
3.	1963/06/23	TAL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your letter and for your frivolous card in Italian. Even the Italians are now infected	✓	Dom André from Mont des Cats pleased with Berryville and Monastic Studies / monastic formation program - ignorance of the brothers of the Church Fathers - myth that tradition is dead / De Rancé - some will not accept that someone can be a saint and an "obsessive neurotic" / Merton's planned book on Cassian «detailed view»
4.	1963/08/26	HLS to Merton	A belated feast day greeting to you! I thought of you yesterday but didn't get a chance to begin		[from Mont des Cats Abbey] Serge Bolshakoff visiting / does not know of a centenary celebration for De Rancé but next issue of Collectanea will feature articles on him / Jean Leclercq - closeness between European Benedictines and American Trappists / Cardinal Montini chosen as pope [Pope Paul VI] «detailed view»
5.	1963/12/16	HLS to Merton	Greetings and a very blessed Christmas season to you! I am enclosing a card of Our Lady which		[from Mont des Cats Abbey] inside information from the Second Vatican Council - debate over "Skema on Communications Media" - books Inside the Council by Robert Kaiser and Letters from the Vatican by Xavier Rhyne / Dom Jean Leclercq's class at San Anselmo «detailed view»
6.	1966/08/no?	TN[c] from Merton	Thanks for the documents you have sent over. I have not yet finished some of them. I like best the		[to Conner at Gethsemani] notes by Dom Willibrord on the Usages / proposed conferences by Conner «detailed view»
7.	1966/10/01 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for letting me see the conference of Fr Orsy. It is as you say very good and should be made	✓	comments and criticism of the conference notes of Fr. Orsy - monastic life and relation of monks to their superior - what is meant by the "will of God" «detailed view»
8.	1966/10/01 (#02)	TLS from Merton	Thanks for letting me see the conference of Fr Orsy. It is as you say very good and should be made	✓	comments and criticism of the conference notes of Fr. Orsy - monastic life and relation of monks to their superior - what is meant by the "will of God" «detailed view»
9.	1966/10/01 (#03)	other[x]	GOVERNMENT IN RELIGIOUS LIFE: THE COUNCIL'S TEACHING [-] Conference by Ladislaus Orsy, s.j.		[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] «detailed view»

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