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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Watts, Peter

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1956-1964

Volume: 9 item(s); 10 pg(s)

Scope and Content

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

Biography

Peter Watts was a British sculptor from Bath, England, who sculpted many of the statues at Gethsemani Abbey.

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Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1956/05/14 TLSto MertonHere is a picture of the St Benedict I have just completed for you - in Bath stone.   
 1956/11/09 TLSto MertonI send you the best of the sketches I have made for St Bernard so far, and I hope that in spite   
 1957/05/no otherto MertonTo Father Louis Merton with love from <u>Peter Watts</u> [-] Bath, England. May 1957.  [inscription on verso of a black and white photograph of Watts' sculpture of St. Bernard of Clairvaux for Gethsemani Abbey]
 1958/01/25 (#01)TLSto MertonThankyou [sic] very much for your letter about the Virgin and Child for your Novitiate Library.   
 1958/01/25 (#02)other    [pencil sketch of a proposed design for a sculpture of Mary and the child Jesus for the novitiate library at Gethsemani Abbey]
 1959/12/08 TLSto MertonThis is to wish you, your Father Abbot and all your brethren a very happy Christmas, and to let you   
 1964/01/06 TLSto MertonTime rushes on, and it is nearly a year and a half since we last met. It may not be long before  [dated "Epiphany 1964"]
 1964/02/20 TAL[c]from MertonI was glad to get your letter, and frankly I think you would probably have better chances of getting   
 undated/no/no TL from Merton to To whom it may concernMr Peter Watts, an English Sculptor, is a good friend of mine who has carried out several   
        

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