Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Carriker, Bruce L." file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1968/April/28 

Series:    

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

To/From:  from Merton to "Carriker, Bruce L."-->

# of pages:  1

Published in:  Witness to Freedom

First Lines:  "You have put me in a difficult spot. I must try to say what I am going to say, put it clearly,"

Contents:  Merton not novice master and does not handle vocations and is "definitely out of the Guru business" / states he must go through the proper channels to enter Gethsemani or try a monastery out west / asks Carriker to be a "disciple of Christ, not any man" [...] "don't build on a mudpile like me!"

Language:  English

Source or donor:  

Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Carriker, Bruce L.:"    1968/April/28