This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Ford, John Cuthbert, Fr., S.J.".
Fr. John C. Ford was a Jesuit priest writing from Washington, D.C. He was a professor at a number of universities, including Boston College and Weston College in Massachusetts. He founded the journal Theological Studies.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also Cold War Letters #23, published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 29-30.
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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1961/12/18 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your letter of Dec. 12th which just arrived. I will do my best to say a few words |
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1962/01/no? |
transcript from Merton |
You may see an article of mine in the Commonweal these days. This too I regret to say, is a bit |
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[Cold War Letters #23 - copy from bound set]
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1972/08/19 |
HLS to Center from Ford, John C. |
Thank you for your letter of August 7. If I have any letter to or from Thomas Merton I don't |
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