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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Deseille, Placide, Fr., O.C.S.O.".
Fr. Placide Deseille was a Trappist of the Abbey of Bellefontaine in France.
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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 |
| | y/m/d | Merton | | Scan ✉ | |
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1961/12/11 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Since I understand you read English I shall write in my own language rather than in French. |
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[see also 1973 note from John Eudes Bamberger] new edition of the Trappist directory - Merton's thoughts on the state of the monastic life among Trappists and contemplatives and his ideas for reform / Cold War and the nuclear arms race - place of monks and of American Catholics in the discussion - sent "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra concerning Giants" to Fr. André Louf regarding Cold War, and also sent text from Clement of Alexandria (Selections from the Protreptikos) / problem of technology and machines
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1963/01/03 |
HLS to Merton |
Merci pour votre carte, qui m'arrive ce matin. Je ne vous avais pas envoyé ce projet de directoire, |
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1963/12/25 |
HCS to Merton |
"O Roi des nations, Toi qui peux combler leur désir, Pierre d' Angle, Toi qui fais l'unité peuples |
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1963/12/30 |
HPCS[x] from Merton |
Je suis en train de lire votre [..] du Nouvelle Directions, et j'en parle aussi aux novices. |
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[see also 1973 note from John Eudes Bamberger]
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1964/07/25 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Il y a longtemps un de nos frères m'a demandé de vous écrire pour vous dire qu'il était en train |
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1964/10/14 |
HPCS to Merton |
Je vous envoie ce mot de Taizé, où je suis venu passer quelques jours. Ce contact avec nos frères |
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[verso: black and white photo of Taize]
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1964/12/12 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter of November 6th. I appreciate your kindness in taking the trouble to write |
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1973/12/no |
HCS[x] from Bamberger, John Eudes / to Patrick Hart |
This is not much of a card but it's big enough to allow me to fit in it these two copies of f. |
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[sending copied of 1961/12/11 and 1963/12/30 letters from Merton to Deseille]
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