Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Collins, Frederic, Br., O.C.S.O." file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1967/November/14 

Series:    

Type:  TL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

To/From:  from Merton to "Collins, Frederic, Br., O.C.S.O."-->

# of pages:  1

Published in:  

First Lines:  "One thing you all don't know: a couple of months ago I asked Dom James to let me go and be a hermit"

Contents:  refusal by Dom James to allow him to be a hermit at La Dehensa / does not want to be a superior - "don't think I am competent to run an institution that is any larger than my own particular dog kennel" / might consider being a prior in Chile, "a country that does not have the Bomb and probably will not"

Language:  English

Source or donor:  

Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Collins, Frederic, Br., O.C.S.O.:"    1967/November/14