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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burke, Jerome, Dom, O.C.S.O.".
Dom Jerome Burke was Abbot of Our Lady of the Genesee in New York.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See one published letter from Merton to Burke in The School of Charity, pp. 385-386.
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 |
| | y/m/d | Merton | | Scan ✉ | |
| 1. |
1968/06/24 |
HLS to Merton |
Recently I polled our community for suggestions as to a Retreat Master for our next retreat |
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invites Merton to lead retreat at Genesee
«detailed view» |
| 2. |
1968/06/27 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have always thought |
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Merton refuses offer to preach retreat - has turned down many others - true vocation is meditation and writing / suggests subprior Fr. Matthew [Kelty?]
«detailed view» |
| 3. |
1968/06/27 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have always thought |
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Merton refuses offer to preach retreat - has turned down many others - true vocation is meditation and writing / suggests subprior Fr. Matthew [Kelty?]
«detailed view» |
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