Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1953/October/09 

Series:  7  Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Merton: Special Binding (Archive - Stack 5).

Type:  TALS - Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.

To/From:  from Merton to "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987"-->

# of pages:  2

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First Lines:  "Welcome back to America. I hope you are glad to be back and that you bring with you much spiritual"

Contents:  mental problems with a young priests - need to "qualify our declarations that our life is very high and exalted" to avoid more vocations with emotional problems / Merton no longer cares to be called a "good religious" by others / false rumors that Merton will run the new foundation but would be happy to go to California / Ann Skakel

Language:  English

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Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987:" Series 7:    1953/October/09