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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
McKinney, John J.

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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1953

Volume: 1 item(s); 2 pg(s)

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John J. McKinney of Long Island, New York, writes to the Mother Superior of the Convent of Mt. Carmel in Bronx, New York, to ask her community's prayers for someone writing the script for a Hollywood movie about St. Theresa of Avila. The Mother Superior forwards the letter with her annotations to Merton.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1953/05/24 TALSto Mother Superior of the Convent of Mt. CarmelMay I ask your kind indulgence? I have an idea and to carry it through preliminary steps must be  [annotations on this letter are by the Mother Superior to Merton]
        

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