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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Burke, Jerome, Dom, O.C.S.O.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 3 item(s); 4 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Dom Jerome Burke was Abbot of Our Lady of the Genesee in New York.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See one published letter from Merton to Burke in The School of Charity, pp. 385-386.

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
 1968/06/24 HLSto MertonRecently I polled our community for suggestions as to a Retreat Master for our next retreat  invites Merton to lead retreat at Genesee
 1968/06/27 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have always thoughtYes Merton refuses offer to preach retreat - has turned down many others - true vocation is meditation and writing / suggests subprior Fr. Matthew [Kelty?]
 1968/06/27 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonThanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have always thoughtYes Merton refuses offer to preach retreat - has turned down many others - true vocation is meditation and writing / suggests subprior Fr. Matthew [Kelty?]
        

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