Single Item Record for the Date:
1955/May/16
Series: 1 Correspondence from original Merton papers (some later additions): Dom James Fox with Merton, Fr. Charles Dumont, Edward Glenn Hinson, Msgr. Alfred Frederick Horrigan, Fr. Giovanni Montini, James Morrissey, Naomi Burton Stone, etc.
Type: TL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).
To/From: to Montini, Giovanni from "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987"-->
# of pages: 3
Published in: Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon
First Lines: "Thisis [sic] the first letter I have ever written to you, Your Excellency, but we have received many"
Contents: [attached to 1955/05/18 letter from Fox to Jean Leclercq - see also a copy in Series 14] Merton's vocational crisis - interest in Carthusians or Camaldolese - desire for solitary life / Merton's background, conversion history, entry into monastery, life as a writer, Master of Novices / Fr. Barnabas Mary, C.P. and Gabriel Sortais - negative effect of Merton leaving
Language: English
Source or donor:
Date received:
Date added: 2004
Unique identifier: Section A- "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987:" Series 1:
1955/May/16
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