MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Frankl, Howard
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1964-1966
Volume: 3 item(s); 6 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Frankl, Howard".
Biography
Howard Frankl met Ernesto Cardenal while in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Cardenal was Frankl's godfather and instructed him in catechism. Frankl spent over two months as a retreatant at the Benedictine community of Nuestra Senora de la Resurrecion. This was the community of another Merton correspondent, Dom Gregorio Lemercier. Under pressure from the Vatican, the community was disbanded and Lemercier laicized in the late 1960's. Ernesto Cardenal shared his Merton correspondence with Frankl. Cardenal liked Frankl's poems and translated some of them into Spanish. Frankl initiates correspondence with Merton by sending some of his poems.
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See also references to Frankl in a chapter entitled "Cuernavaca" from Ernesto Cardenal's autobiography, Vida Perdida; and see also the "Cardenal, Ernesto" and "Lemercier, Gregorio" files.
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