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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Merton, John James

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968, 1990

Volume: 4 item(s); 8 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Merton, John James".

Biography

John Merton was Thomas Merton's cousin, the son of John Llewellyn Charles Merton (Uncle Lyn). At the time of writing, he was an Anglican priest and Vicar of the Parochial District of New Brighton in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Source: The Road to Joy, pp. 86.)

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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

Date	Type	To/From	First Lines	Pub
1968/04/no?	HLS	to Merton	I am sorry that my first letter to you should be to give you the sad news of Aunt Kit's death.
1968/06/17	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for writing about Aunt Kit. I was away when your letter arrived. Though we seldom travel	Yes
1990/02/15	TALS[x]	from Goodall, Maurice / to F. A. Peake	Thank you for your letter of 24 January 1990 regarding the Reverend John James Merton.
undated/no/no	TLS[x]	to Peake, F. A., Rev. Dr.	I have had your letter of March weighing on my mind for too many months. My apologies

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