MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Pawsey, Humphrey, Dom, O. Cart.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1947-1952
Volume: 9 item(s); 13 pg(s)
Scope and Content
During the late 1940's and some of the 1950's, Merton experienced a vocational crisis. He had an interest in the Carthusians at the time he entered the Trappists, but it was World War II and there were no Carthusian foundations in the United States. When there was a chance of the Carthusians coming to America after the war, it presented a temptation for Merton to leave. He was faced with the notoriety from the publication of The Seven Storey Mountain, and wanted more solitude and space for contemplation. He was concerned about an overly busy routine he thought was working its way into the Trappist lifestyle.
Biography
Dom Humphrey Pawsey was a Carthusian monk from St. Hugh's Charterhouse in England. In the 1950's, he became superior of their American foundation at Sky Farm in Vermont.
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Related Information and Links
See published letters from Merton to Pawsey in The School of Charity, pp. 13-14 and 39-41.
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