Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1959/November/09 

Series:  1  Correspondence from original Merton papers (some later additions): Dom James Fox with Merton, Fr. Charles Dumont, Edward Glenn Hinson, Msgr. Alfred Frederick Horrigan, Fr. Giovanni Montini, James Morrissey, Naomi Burton Stone, etc.

Type:  TALS - Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.

To/From:  to Leclercq, Jean from "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987"-->

# of pages:  2

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First Lines:  "Your letter of October 23 to Father Louis arrived. But I deemed it better not to give it to him as"

Contents:  Fox has not given Leclercq's letter to Merton - thinks Leclercq is misguided in advising Merton on a vocation as a hermit - asks that Leclercq not mention this to Merton in the future, but to stick to "literary matters, …the Preface, THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE, etc.

Language:  English

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Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987:" Series 1:    1959/November/09