This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Jenkins, Harold Brewster".
Harold Brewster Jenkins was Merton's uncle on his mother's side. He married Elsie Hauck Holahan in 1938. (See "Jenkins, Elsie" for a more complete description).
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also one published letter from Merton to Harold Jenkins in The Road to Joy, pp. 82-83.
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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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1967/12/20 |
HCS to Merton |
First, I hope this finds you healthy and content. Elsie and I are reasonably well for people of our |
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[Christmas card]
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2. |
1967/12/31 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for the card: I was glad to get a little news from Harold. Sorry I haven't been writing |
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[to Harold and Elsie Jenkins]
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1968/12/13 |
HLS[x] to Burns, Flavian |
Thank you for your telegram informing us of Father Thomas Merton's death. I assume he will be buried |
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[letter to Dom Flavian Burns, the Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey in 1968 - see also the "Burns, Flavian" file in Section A]
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1970/12/09 |
HLS[x] to Griffin, John Howard |
This is in answer to your letter of Oct 29, enclosing one from Miss Merton to you, which I return |
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5. |
1970/12/13 |
TL[x] from Griffin, John Howard |
I really do not know how to thank you for the care you have taken to reply to my questions - |
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