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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Cavanaugh, Frances

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)

Scope and Content

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

Biography

Frances Cavanaugh writes from Hempstead, New York. She describes herself as "one of the nuns in modern garb teaching on university campuses."

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1968/03/15 TLSto MertonI read with some absorption the recent interview article involving you and Thomas McDonnell  Merton and Thomas McDonnell in <u>U.S. Catholic</u> / grant she received to study Robert of Holcot's influence on English Renaissance dramatists and poets - brief section on contemporary Franciscans / asks Merton for suggested works from the Middle Ages concerning the new aeon of the Spirit / Teilhard de Chardin
 1968/03/19 TL[c]from MertonI am afraid I don't have at hand any bibliography that would provide references for you.  suggests his friend from St. Bonaventure University, Fr. Philotheus Boehner, O.F.M. (Occamist and interested in Holcot) / for "aeon of the Spirit", suggests "Spiritual Franciscans" bibliography or Fraticelli - write to Fr. Irenaeus, O.F.M. of the Franciscan Institute library at St. Bonaventure University
        

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