MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
O'Neill, Jack
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1964
Volume: 3 item(s); 0 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Jack O'Neill wrote an article critical of the monastic life as lived in the modern United States and about the ways it fails to live up to its ideals. The article was entitled, "A Memo from Monasticism's Separated Brethren." Merton wrote a preface and comments for it, called "Notes from an Ex Novice." It was not published.
Biography
Jack O'Neill was an ex-novice of Gethsemani Abbey.
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See also an unpublished manuscript of "Notes from an Ex Novice" and "A Memo from Monasticism's Separated Brethren" in Section E.1 of the Merton Center Classification (both filed under "Notes from an Ex Novice").
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