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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "DePinto, Basil, Fr., O.S.B.".
Fr. Basil DePinto was a Benedictine priest at Mount Saviour Monastery in Pine City, New York, and took over as editor of Monastic Studies from Brendan Collins. DePinto was a former monk of Gethsemani. He later left the Benedictines but remained a priest, serving in Rhode Island and California.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See published letters from Merton to DePinto in The School of Charity, pp. 345-346; and see also "Collins, Bernard, Fr. (Br. Brendan Collins)" file for DePinto's predecessor at Monastic Studies.
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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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1967/08/25 |
TL[c] to Merton |
Br. Brendan is off to Collegeville to study and I'm going to try to keep MONASTIC STUDIES afloat. |
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1967/09/01 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your note, very gratifying because I would certainly hate to see "Monastic Studies" |
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1967/09/30 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for the "spiritual Father", which I'm sure we'll use in this issue or the next. |
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1967/12/20 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Oops so sorry forgot your letter. I have been very busy even worse than usual. About your queries |
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1968/01/18 |
TLS to Merton |
Another idea for a book review: Jean Décarreaux, Monks and Civilization: The Story of Early |
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1968/01/22 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
We have had two of those three books read here in refectory and they are ok, but they are past |
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1968/01/22 (#02) |
TALS[x] from Merton |
We have had two of those three books read here in refectory and they are ok, but they are past |
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1968/04/05 |
TLS to Merton |
You expressed interest in "Sources Chrétiennes" as material for book reviews. I have the first |
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1968/04/13 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Sulpicius Serverus: why not? As long as I have plenty of time. Anyhow, do send along. |
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1968/04/13 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
The xeroxes of this review article for you came in after I mailed my last thing. This will reach |
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1968/06/11 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I am really covered with confusion. The other day offprints came from Cistercian Studies-- |
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1968/06/22 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I'll send a critique of MS 5 but yesterday I looked all around and couldn't find my copy. Later! |
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1972/09/06 |
TLS to Center from Peter, Br., O.S.B. |
I'm sorry that we did not meet last week. I will make copies of the correspondence between Thomas |
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[letter from Br. Peter from Mount Saviour Monastery, who was editor of Monastic Studies at the time of this letter]
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1972/09/15 |
TL[c] from Center to Peter, Br., O.S.B. |
I too regret that I did not meet you while at Mt. Saviour for the symposium. The first thing |
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