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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Watts, Peter".
Peter Watts was a British sculptor from Bath, England, who sculpted many of the statues at Gethsemani Abbey.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1956/05/14 |
TLS to Merton |
Here is a picture of the St Benedict I have just completed for you - in Bath stone. |
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1956/11/09 |
TLS to Merton |
I send you the best of the sketches I have made for St Bernard so far, and I hope that in spite |
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1957/05/no |
other to Merton |
To Father Louis Merton with love from Peter Watts [-] Bath, England. May 1957. |
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[inscription on verso of a black and white photograph of Watts' sculpture of St. Bernard of Clairvaux for Gethsemani Abbey]
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1958/01/25 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Thankyou [sic] very much for your letter about the Virgin and Child for your Novitiate Library. |
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1958/01/25 (#02) |
other |
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[pencil sketch of a proposed design for a sculpture of Mary and the child Jesus for the novitiate library at Gethsemani Abbey]
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1959/12/08 |
TLS to Merton |
This is to wish you, your Father Abbot and all your brethren a very happy Christmas, and to let you |
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1964/01/06 |
TLS to Merton |
Time rushes on, and it is nearly a year and a half since we last met. It may not be long before |
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[dated "Epiphany 1964"]
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1964/02/20 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
I was glad to get your letter, and frankly I think you would probably have better chances of getting |
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| 9. |
undated/no/no |
TL from Merton to To whom it may concern |
Mr Peter Watts, an English Sculptor, is a good friend of mine who has carried out several |
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