This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Cavanaugh, Frances".
Frances Cavanaugh writes from Hempstead, New York. She describes herself as "one of the nuns in modern garb teaching on university campuses."
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1968/03/15 |
TLS to Merton |
I read with some absorption the recent interview article involving you and Thomas McDonnell |
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Merton and Thomas McDonnell in U.S. Catholic / grant she received to study Robert of Holcot's influence on English Renaissance dramatists and poets - brief section on contemporary Franciscans / asks Merton for suggested works from the Middle Ages concerning the new aeon of the Spirit / Teilhard de Chardin
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1968/03/19 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am afraid I don't have at hand any bibliography that would provide references for you. |
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suggests his friend from St. Bonaventure University, Fr. Philotheus Boehner, O.F.M. (Occamist and interested in Holcot) / for "aeon of the Spirit", suggests "Spiritual Franciscans" bibliography or Fraticelli - write to Fr. Irenaeus, O.F.M. of the Franciscan Institute library at St. Bonaventure University
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