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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Bryan, Gerard, Fr., O.C.S.O.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963, 1966

Volume: 3 item(s); 4 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bryan, Gerard, Fr., O.C.S.O.".

Biography

Fr. Gerard Bryan, a monk of Gethsemani, was completing a doctoral dissertation in Rome on St. Bernard of Clairvaux and Teilhard de Chardin. (Source: The School of Charity, p. 303).

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Bryan in The School of Charity, pp. 303-304.

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/no/no? TL[c]from MertonThe thing I forgot was this. It is really no special problem but I thought for once I might spell  Merton Collection at Bellarmine College / Dom James Fox and his disapproval of the idea
 1966/05/08 TLSto MertonThat letter of your received in July has been waiting an answer for many a month. I postponed   
 1966/05/27 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter. I was glad to hear from you, though I well understand that in Rome one doesYes connection between Vladimir Soloviev and Teilhard de Chardin (and St. Bernard) - Gregory of Nyssa / Dom Samson Wicksteed (of Caldey Abbey)
        

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