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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Fitzpatrick, Patricia, Sr., O.S.B.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1965, 1968

Volume: 7 item(s); 10 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Fitzpatrick, Patricia, Sr., O.S.B.".

Biography

Sr. Patricia Fitzpatrick was a Benedictine from Mount Saint Benedict Convent and Corbett College in Crookston, Minnesota.

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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
 1965/09/08 (#01)TLSto MertonAfter three years so busy with school matters that I could not find the time and seclusion necessary  [originally dated 1965/August/07 and attached to letter to Merton of 1965/September/08 - from Fr. Roger, Chaplain, Mount St. Benedict Convent in Crookston, Minnesota to Sr. Patricia - includes a handwritten note from Sr. Patricia to Merton]
 1965/09/08 (#02)TALS[x]from Fr. RogerI have read the greater portion of this manuscript of Cassian's writings, in fact, I read much more,  [originally dated 1965/August/07 and attached to letter to Merton of 1965/September/08 - from Fr. Roger, Chaplain, Mount St. Benedict Convent in Crookston, Minnesota to Sr. Patricia - includes a handwritten note from Sr. Patricia to Merton]
 1968/08/14 (#01)HLSto MertonNoting the date of Sister Teresa Ann's letter (photocopy enclosed), I am ashamed not to have written   
 1968/08/14 (#01)TANSto MertonSister T.A. seems to have had the wrong notion of Fr. Barry's original idea of a basic translation  [handwritten note to Merton on a copy of a typed letter from Sr. Teresa Ann Doyle, O.S.B., editor of <u>American Benedictine Review</u> from 1968/06/06]
 1968/08/14 (#02)TNS from Merton to Br. LawrenceShe did a translation of Cassian to which I can write an introduction after I get back maybe.  [undated but stapled to envelope for 1968/08/14 letter]
 undated/no/no HNS from Merton to Br. LawrenceCould you please phone or wire and tell her I can't see her but suggest she contact Fr. Basil   
 undated/no/no HNS from Br. Lawrence to MertonI called her - she took it well. She will write you about the matter.   
        

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