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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Ford, John H. (Jack)".
Jack Ford was a philosophy professor at Bellarmine College during his correspondence with Merton and who later taught at University of Louisville. He and Merton met around 1960 and later developed a friendship.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
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"
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1960/09/12 |
TALS to Merton |
Well, all the prayers seem to have been answered and to coin a phrase mother and daughter are doing |
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1966/12/03 |
TL[c] from Merton |
As you know I am having trouble getting a typist here, and now that we are in the paroxysm |
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1967/04/29 |
TLS to Merton |
I need some advice on several matters. First, do you have any ideas on a gift for Dan at ordination |
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1967/05/07 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Sorry for my delay in answering about the agent. The best advice I can give is to try Curtis Brown. |
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1967/10/no? |
TL[c] from Merton |
This is to confirm what I said to Gladys on the phone. Rosemary Haughton will fly in to Louisville |
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[no date, just labeled "Sunday" - Rosemary Haughton visited Gethsemani on October 23, 1967]
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1985/no/no |
other |
Spalding University Library [-] BOOK VIEWS [-] SPRING SERIES, 1985 [-] Tuesdays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm |
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[announces a March 5th lecture by John Ford, at that time professor at the University of Louisville, on Michael Mott's book The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton]
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