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Merton's Correspondence with:

Fr. Innocent

Innocent, Fr., O.C.S.O.  printer

 
 

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1951, 1954
Volume: 2 item(s); 6 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Innocent, Fr., O.C.S.O.".

Biography

Fr. Innocent seems to have been a Trappist monk of Gethsemani. He writes the first letter on a trip to the Benedictine monastery of St-BenoƮt-du-Lac in Quebec, Canada, which he describes as possessing the idea of "hermits in community".

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#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
 y/m/dMerton Scan ✉ 
1. 1951/10/15 HLS to Merton I will leave unfinished the letter I started and begin anew. It is better to save all my fussing «detailed view»
2. 1954/07/10 HLS to Merton The trip up was very interesting from many points of view. For instance Fr. Thomas saw an M. P. «detailed view»

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