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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, 1929-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963, 1967

Volume: 2 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier".

Biography

Jacqueline Kennedy was married to President John F. Kennedy. Merton writes to Jacqueline Kennedy after the President's assassination.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also published letters from Merton to Jacqueline Kennedy in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 449-450.

Other Finding Aids

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.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1963/11/27 TAL[c]from MertonThinking that one more letter might be a burden to you I refrained from writing, though instinctYes [4 copies - seemingly same text but typed differently]
 1966/12/08 TL[x]from Ferry, W. H.Father Richard McSorley encourages me to write to you directly with the following suggestion, which  [from Wilbur H. Ferry to Jacqueline Kennedy - carbon copies sent to Fr. Richard McSorley, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Ira Sandperl, and Fr. Daniel Berrigan - see "Ferry, Wilbur Hugh" file for hard copy of the letter]
        

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