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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Heilo, Sven".
When first writing to Merton, Sven Heilo was a law student living in Lund, Sweden. He had been born in Illinois to Swedish-Lutheran parents in 1940 and moved with his family to Sweden seven years later. He converted to Catholicism in 1960. He was considering a religious vocation and writes about this and a trip to the United States in 1964. There are no extant letters from Heilo from this trip, but Merton makes some remarks about the culture and politics of America and the candidacy of Goldwater. In 1965, Heilo went to work for a customs port in Stockholm and later married.
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1963/08/05 |
TLS to Merton |
A convert since 3½ years, I have been reading your books for some time now, and for the time being |
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1963/10/20 |
HLS from Merton |
Your letter was very interesting. We will certainly pray for your new Carmelites - ask them to pray |
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1963/10/29 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your great kindness to send me a letter! I was very glad. I have contacted |
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1963/11/15 |
TL to Merton |
Thank you very much for the mimeographs. I have not had time to read them all yet, but at this |
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1963/11/20 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
Thanks for your good letter written on the feast of the dedication of our Abbey Church, and the day |
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1963/11/20 (#02) |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your good letter written on the feast of the dedication of our Abbey Church, and the day |
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1964/02/22 |
TLS from Merton |
Thanks for your good letter. I am glad to hear you are coming to America, and you have no need |
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1964/12/09 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
This will be a very imperfect reply to your interesting letter of Oct. 20[.] Your account of |
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1964/12/09 (#02) |
TLS from Merton |
This will be a very imperfect reply to your interesting letter of Oct. 20[.] Your account of |
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1965/07/02 |
TALS to Merton |
It is not my intention to here dwell on external activities of mine during the last six months, |
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1965/07/14 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
Man, what a time you are having! But I understand perfectly. You must not feel surprised or upset |
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1965/07/14 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Man, what a time you are having! But I understand perfectly. You must not feel surprised or upset |
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1967/12/17 |
TLS to Merton |
Just a few words as a Christmas greeting. Your letters to me a few years ago are indeed not |
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1971/04/01 (#01) |
TLS[x] to Center from Heilo, Sven |
Not knowing how long your letter has been under way or has been lying around the Dominican's convent |
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1971/04/01 (#02) |
other |
POST SCRIPTUM [-] Articles et cetera in the possession of Mr Sven Heilo, Lund, Sweden by Thomas |
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1971/05/18 |
TL[x] from Center to Heilo, Sven |
Please accept my apology for being sollong [sic] in thanking you for your kind donation of original |
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undated/no/no |
other[x] from Merton |
Here are a few of the things I am trying to say about the problems you mention. The government is |
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[Merton's inscription to Heilo on the title page of a spirit ditto reproduction of additions to Merton's book, Faith and Violence - see Sub-Section D.9 for original signed document]
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