Single Item Record for the Date:
1955/August/20 (#04)
Series: 16 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Archbishop Giovanni Montini (later Pope Paul VI)
Type: transcript - Transcript copy of a letter, i.e., re-typed or re-written after original.
To/From: from Montini, Giovanni / to Merton
# of pages: 3
Published in: Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon
First Lines: "I am writing to you with a good deal of delay, I know, and on your one question which would have"
Contents: [English translation of letter of the same date from Montini to Merton] regarding whether Merton should leave Gethsemani and join the Camaldolese / advises against this change for practical reasons - Camaldolese unstable at present, leaving Gethsemani would scandalize readers - Merton should listen to his heart but obey his abbot
Language: English
Source or donor: Gethsemani Abbey Archives
Date received: 2008/07/14
Date added:
Unique identifier: Section A- "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987:" Series 16:
1955/August/20 (#04)
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