Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Unidentified Correspondents (filed at the end of the sequence)" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1964/August/21 

Series:    

Type:  TL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

To/From:  from Merton to "Unidentified Correspondents (filed at the end of the sequence)"-->

# of pages:  1

Published in:  

First Lines:  "Je ne peux pas ordinairement rĂ©pondre a toutes les lettres, mais je vais tacher de vous dire un mot."

Contents:  [writing to a young man in a minor seminary] Merton responds to questions about the religious life - maintaining fiends outside the monastery, celibacy (Merton's desire to have children but feels his work as a novice master is a similar calling) / the Church and capitalism / Dom Colomban Bissey at Melleray Abbey

Language:  French

Source or donor:  

Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Unidentified Correspondents (filed at the end of the sequence):"    1964/August/21