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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Breitenbeck, Joseph Matthew, Bishop".
Bishop Joseph Breitenbeck was serving as the Archdiocese of Detroit at the time of this correspondence.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also "Brennan, Benedicta" and "Dardenne, Myriam" for more information about reform in the lives of women religious.
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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1968/06/18 |
TLS to Merton |
It looks like I spend most of my time on the road - but not in behalf of myself. I had just |
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thanks to Merton for his support for contemplative nuns and the letter he sent to the Pope
«detailed view» |
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1968/06/21 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I appreciate your kind letter of the 18th and I'm glad to hear at least a temporary solution for the |
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would like to attend Monroe [Michigan] workshop on contemplative life, but doubts he can make it / would like to arrange meeting with the Trappist nuns at Redwoods Monastery
«detailed view» |
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1968/07/05 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I appreciate your kind note, and I want to say that I wish I were free to be of more service in what |
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Merton offers to send notes to share with bishops on contemplative life
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1968/07/no? |
HLS to Merton |
This is hurried because I am home only a few hours. I was sorry to hear you can't come. In the |
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regrets that Merton will not be at the conference - 250 superiors and not another voice like Merton's
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1968/09/20 |
TALS to Merton |
For your confidential information I wish to assure you that I have received the unanimous support of |
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Merton's annotation on letter "suggest Mother Myriam (Redwoods) / Breitenbeck asks for suggestions of contemplative nuns for conference
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