This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Hering, Jean".
Professor Jean Hering was Merton's tutor in French and German during a 1930 holiday to Strasbourg. Tom Izod Bennett, Merton's guardian in England after the death of his father, arranged this for Merton. (Source: The Road to Joy, pp. 60-61.)
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also published letters from Merton to Hering in The Road to Joy, pp. 60-61 and 63-64.
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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1963/12/28 (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
Mon père et cher ami. C'est brave de votre part de ne pas oublier le grand-père du C.E., qui |
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1963/12/28 (#02) |
transcript to Merton |
It is good of you not to forget the grandfather of the C.E. [See P.S. to this letter. The C.E. |
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1964/04/06 (#01) |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Merci de votre bonne lettre et des renseignements que vous y avez jointes. Nous n'avons pas votre |
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1964/04/06 (#02) |
transcript from Merton |
Thank you for your good letter and for all the information you included. Unfortunately we do not |
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1964/05/15? (#01) |
HPCS to Merton |
Heureux d'avoir encore de vos nouvelles! Je vous répondrai d'une manière plus détaillée |
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1964/05/15? (#02) |
transcript to Merton |
How happy I was to hear from you again! I shall answer later in a more detailed and fitting way |
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1964/05/28 (#01) |
HPCS to Merton |
Veuillez accepter mes remerciements sincères pour le beau cadeau, qui vient d'arriver. |
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1964/05/28 (#02) |
transcript to Merton |
Please accept my sincere thanks for the beautiful gift which has just arrived. I have |
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1964/05/no? (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
Je viens de lire votre dissertation sur les noirs et blancs |
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1964/05/no? (#02) |
HLS to Merton |
I have just read your thesis on the Blacks and the Whites (as reviewed in Albertus Magnus |
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1964/07/28 (#01) |
TAL[c] from Merton |
J'ai bien goûté votre "Fable de Lafontaine" sur la paix, et je suis d'accord sur votre remarque que |
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1964/07/28 (#02) |
transcript from Merton |
I enjoyed very much your "Fable of Lafontaine" on peace, and I agree with your observation that |
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1964/09/no? (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
LaFontaine et Ses Commentateurs I. La Fable du Loup et de L'Agneau La fable est connue, |
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1964/09/no? (#02) |
transcript to Merton |
La Fontaine and His Commentators I. The Fable of the Wolf and the Lamb The fable is well |
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15. |
1986/08/07 (#01) |
TLS to Center from Shannon, William |
Enclosed you will find the "Hering" Letters. I think it was the most difficult set I have ever |
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1986/08/07 (#02) |
other |
Letter from Jean Hering to Merton [-] 43, Quai des Baioliers, Stasbourg [-] 28 December ,1963 [sic] |
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[transcripts of full set of letters translated by William Shannon]
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17. |
undated/no/no |
other |
HOMMAGE AU PROFESSEUR JEAN HÉRING PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS DE JEAN HERING |
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