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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Minard, Peter, Dom, O.S.B., 1908-1988

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964-1966, 1971

Volume: 8 item(s); 13 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Dom Peter Minard was a French Benedictine monk and founder of the Holy Mother of God Monastery in Oxford, North Carolina, a contemplative Benedictine foundation that later was turned over to the Trappists.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See one published letter from Merton to Dom Peter Minard in The School of Charity, pp. 262-263.

Other Finding Aids

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
 1964/11/14 TALSto MertonMany thanks for having sent me several articles concerning the monastic renewal, and other subjects,   
 1965/01/09 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThank you for your good letter of Nov. 14th. Perhaps you were wondering if I received it. I did.Yes  
 1965/01/09 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonThank you for your good letter of Nov. 14th. Perhaps you were wondering if I received it. I did.Yes [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2]
 1965/02/16 TALSto MertonBefore time comes when you will not be able, in the sacred silence of Lent, to write again, I drop   
 1966/07/19 HLSto MertonMany thanks for your focus and articles which I just received as the preceding one, it is a very   
 1966/08/03 HNSto MertonA big thanx, dear Father Louis, for the two   
 1971/05/01 TLS[x]to Center from Minard, PeterIn answer to your desire to receive for your Center the letters Thomas Merton wrote, I send you here   
 1971/06/21 TL[x]from Center to Minard, PeterThank you for your letter of May 1, and please accept my apology for being so long in answering your   
        

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