Merton met Fr. Joseph Vann while Vann was teaching at Columbia University in New York. He writes to Vann at Siena College.
Fr. Joseph Vann was a Franciscan friar and one of the founding fathers of St. Bernardine of Siena College in Loudonville, New York, an extension of St. Bonaventure College.
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See also one published letter from Merton to Vann in The Road to Joy, pp. 293-294.
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1940/09/19 |
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I guess you probably heard that something turned up that prevented me from going in to the novitiate |
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