This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Morson, John, Dom, O.C.S.O.".
Dom John Morson was a Trappist monk of Mount St. Bernard's Abbey in Leicester, England. He served as Trappist Definitor for England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. He was a regular contributor to Cistercian Studies. He writes from Rome. (Source: The School of Charity, p. 330.)
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See also published letters from Merton to Morson in The School of Charity, pp. 330-333.
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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1966/05/21 |
TLS[x] to Fox, James |
I enclose the Imprimi potest for an article (Apologies to an Unbeliever) by Fr. Louis |
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[see "Censors Reports" for "Apologies to an Unbeliever" for original letter and Imprimi Potest / one page of letter and one page Imprimi Potest]
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1967/02/27 |
TALS to Merton |
Father Beyer, of the Gregorian, who helps me very much with his advice, has been reading a report |
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1967/03/29 (#01) |
transcript from Merton |
Your letter was dated the 27th of February and postmarked the 28th, and yet I did not receive it |
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1967/03/29 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Your letter was dated the 27th of February and postmarked the 28th, and yet I did not receive it |
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[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2]
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1967/04/24 |
TLS to Merton |
There was not need for any apology. Indeed it is now my turn to apologize for being so very late |
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1967/05/04 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter, and I am glad that my notes on the theological training of monks were not |
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1967/05/04 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter, and I am glad that my notes on the theological training of monks were not |
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[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2]
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1968/07/05 |
TALS to Merton |
Rather more than a year ago I was urged to collect a few 'sententiae peritorum' on the place |
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1968/07/12 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I have rather hastily rewritten the notes on Monastic Theology. They are now perhaps a little less |
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[copied from a photocopy from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 / verso copied from original letter from Fr. Martin Clayon of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey in Leicester, England, (who copied Morson letter) to Br. Patrick Hart, 1987/02/28]
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1968/08/26 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you very much for the article (you say "notes on Monastic Theology"), which you sent me |
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