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This brief correspondence mainly concerns the upcoming abbatial election at Gethsemani to elect a replacement for Dom James. This file contains an original letter from Fr. Linus Doerner, a carbon copy of Merton's response, and a letter co-signed by Linus and four other monks studying in Rome.
Fr. Linus was a monk of Gethsemani Abbey writing to Merton while away at studies in Rome.
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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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1967/11/25 |
HLS to Merton |
Grace and peace! - I was glad to see one or two letters and a couple of articles of yours during |
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1967/11/30 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
It is late, and I just got back from a long day with the dentist in Lexington. With a mouth full |
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1967/11/30 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
It is late, and I just got back from a long day with the dentist in Lexington. With a mouth full |
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1967/12/04 |
TLS from Doerner, Linus et al. / to Merton |
Must tell you immediately how completely delighted we all are with your quick, bristling, kind |
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[from Gethsemani monks in Rome (all have separate correspondence files) - Linus Doerner, Timothy Kelly, Barnabas (Fr. Patrick H. Reardon), Felix Donahue, and Patrick Hart]
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