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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Halsey, Columba, Fr., O.S.B.".
Fr. Columba Halsey was a Benedictine monk of St. Maur's Priory in South Union, Kentucky. The monastery was unique in the United States as having been established as a racially integrated community when it was founded in 1947 on the grounds of a Shaker village.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also published letters from Merton to Halsey in The School of Charity, pp. 240, 248-249.
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.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1964/05/14 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Sorry for the delay in answering your letter. I have had quite a few reactions to my statement |
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«detailed view» |
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1964/09/27 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Probably the best thing for you to do would be to get in contact with the men at our monastery |
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«detailed view» |
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1964/09/30 |
TALS to Merton |
You don't know how grateful I am for your letter, and for the articles which arrived in to-day's |
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1964/10/29 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for your good letter. I mean to send along mimeographs of what I had to say |
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1964/11/03 |
TALS to Merton |
I am very grateful to you for your letter, and for the article enclosed in it - all I can say is, |
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