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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
de Menil, Dominique, 1908-1997

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1957-1958

Volume: 6 item(s); 8 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "de Menil, Dominique".

Biography

Dominique de Menil (wife of John de Menil [Jean Marie Joseph Menu de Menil]) writes from Houston, Texas. A prominent oil family, the de Menils collected one of the largest and most important American collections of art. They also devoted much of their later lives to ecumenism. The Menil Collection and the Rothko Chapel are testaments to their legacy in the arts and in ecumenism.

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Related Information and Links

See also "Andrade, Jaime" file for a similar request for a statue of the Virgin Mary.

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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.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1957/11/01 HLSto MertonWe are going to Paris for three weeks this month, my husband and myself, and we shall be looking for   
 1957/11/09 TLS[x]from MertonThank you for your kind letter which I received too late for a reply to New York.   
 1957/12/17 TLSto MertonOur search in the antique shops of Paris has not been as successful as I had hoped. Nevertheless,   
 1958/01/03 TALS[x]from MertonMany thank for your letter of December 17. I have thought a great deal about the pictures,   
 1958/01/07 TLSto MertonThank you very much for your letter and the photos you sent me back. Like you, I sort of liked   
 1958/06/06 TALS[x]from MertonOnce again I come asking a favor. I have written a little book on <u>Art and Worship</u>   
        

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