This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Delacorte, Valerie".
Valerie Delacorte was writing from New York.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also: Cold War Letters #74, published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 52-53.
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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1962/05/22 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Your letter was wonderful. Itis [sic] a pity I have so little time to write decent letters promptly |
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[Cold War Letters #74] Vietnam War / feminism - women's role in the world / crisis of falsity in the world - women often the target of negative effects of commercialism
«detailed view» |
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1962/05/22 (#02) |
transcript from Merton |
Your letter was wonderful. It is a pity I have so little time to write decent letters promptly, |
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[Cold War Letters #74 - copy from bound, mimeographed set] Vietnam War / feminism - women's role in the world / crisis of falsity in the world - women often the target of negative effects of commercialism
«detailed view» |
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1962/05/31 |
HLS to Merton |
Your letter made us very happy and we are beginning to plan a visit to Rome. -- Would you really |
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«detailed view» |
4. |
1962/10/18? |
HPCS to Merton |
I never thought Lourdes will [sic] touch me that deeply - I come here to fulfill a vow - and leave |
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[verso: color photo of the basilica at Lourdes]
«detailed view» |
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