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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "de Menil, Dominique".
Dominique de Menil (wife of John de Menil [Jean Marie Joseph Menu de Menil]) writes from Houston, Texas. A prominent oil family, the de Menils collected one of the largest and most important American collections of art. They also devoted much of their later lives to ecumenism. The Menil Collection and the Rothko Chapel are testaments to their legacy in the arts and in ecumenism.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also "Andrade, Jaime" file for a similar request for a statue of the Virgin Mary.
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.
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1957/11/01 |
HLS to Merton |
We are going to Paris for three weeks this month, my husband and myself, and we shall be looking for |
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«detailed view» |
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1957/11/09 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thank you for your kind letter which I received too late for a reply to New York. |
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1957/12/17 |
TLS to Merton |
Our search in the antique shops of Paris has not been as successful as I had hoped. Nevertheless, |
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«detailed view» |
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1958/01/03 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Many thank for your letter of December 17. I have thought a great deal about the pictures, |
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1958/01/07 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you very much for your letter and the photos you sent me back. Like you, I sort of liked |
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«detailed view» |
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1958/06/06 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Once again I come asking a favor. I have written a little book on Art and Worship |
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