MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Arca de Sardiña, Evora
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1961-1966
Volume: 31 item(s); 56 pg(s)
Scope and Content
In this group of letters, Merton provides spiritual direction to a Cuban expatriate who fled after Fidel Castro came to power. Subjects of the letters include the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Merton "Warn[s] her against those who would turn to violence but also against those who would embrace a comfortable and wealthy Catholicism" (Shannon, p. 77). (Source: Witness to Freedom.) Many letters from Merton are photocopies from the published letters. However, a few carbons of his letters and original handwritten letters from Evora Arca de Sardiña are present.
Biography
Evora Arca de Sardiña was born in Cuba, attended high school in New York, and returned to Cuba in 1950. In Cuba, she was involved in social work the poor. When Castro came to power in 1959, she fled to the United States with her husband and her five sons and settled in Miami. Her husband, Eugenio, was part of the CIA-trained anti-Castro assault force captured at the Bay of Pigs. (Source: Witness to Freedom.)
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See also Cold War Letters #27, #93, #109 and other letters from Merton to Arca de Sardiña published in Witness to Freedom, 76-85; and see also the "Rodríguez, Marta Elena" file.
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