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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Yakel, Jeanette

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Jeannette Yakel asks how God could permit cruelty to animals and their suffering. Merton offers a response.

Biography

Jeannette Yakel writes from Green Island, New York.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Yakel in The Road to Joy, p. 347.

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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.
   

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/02/28 TLSto MertonLately I have become aware of all the cruelty to animals that goes on in the world and it torments   
 1967/03/21 TL[c]from MertonAny question about unjust and useless suffering is difficult to answer, and I must admit that IYes  
        

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